How to insert value to URL path

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rjohnson375 Reply #1, 11 years, 6 months ago

How can I insert something into my current URL path? For example, if a user tries going to www.mysite.com/packages I would like to update the URL to be www.mysite.com/tampa/packages

I created a snippet with the following code:

switch ($_COOKIE['market']) {
    
case "tampa":
  $url = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
  switch (true) { 
    case strstr($url, 'packages'):
      $currenturl = str_replace('/packages','/tampa/packages/',$url);
      header("Location: ".$currenturl);
      echo $modx->sendRedirect($currenturl, array('type' => 'REDIRECT_HEADER'));
      break;
    }
    break;

  // etc for other markets
}

I've even tried manually inserting the URL so one of the lines looked like:

echo $modx->sendRedirect("/tampa/packages/", array('type' => 'REDIRECT_HEADER'));

This question has been answered by BobRay. See the first response.

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BobRay Reply #2, 11 years, 6 months ago

You don't need the header() line and you need to remove the word 'echo.'

I think a better approach would be a redirect in .htaccess based on the cookie. It should give you significantly faster page loads. It's tricky, though, because it's easy to create an infinite loop. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3978726/how-to-do-htaccess-redirect-based-on-cookie-value

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rjohnson375 Reply #3, 11 years, 6 months ago

Thank you again BobRay, I will definitely look into doing this in htaccess, it sounds like a much cleaner solution.

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