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Extensions => Modules => Topic started by: jazzys on October 11, 2015, 10:05:55

Title: Menu Items (Links) - Where are the URL's created ?
Post by: jazzys on October 11, 2015, 10:05:55

Can someone guide me on, where the Menu Item links are created, before the page output to html in the browser?

We are using a domain forwarding currently and I wish to display the URL accordingly.

I believe it can be configurated in the uri.class.php

Thank you.

Title: Re: Menu Items (Links) - Where are the URL's created ?
Post by: datahell on October 12, 2015, 11:30:30

Don't edit Elxis libraries! Links are component specific and defined there, so all links pre-exist, you dont need to create them. You just display the link to any page you want. In Elxis administration you can create a new menu item (link) to any page you want.

Administration > Menu > Main menu > New

In most cases you can define the parts or the whole URL by setting seo titles on items (eg categories and articles). All component except component Content have base names in order Elxis to understand for which component each link is for. For component User the base name is "user" so all links to component user starts with user/.... The same for all components. You can change the base name in Elxis administration by re-routing the component to an other route base name.

Administration > Site > Routing

So a link to this page:
http://www.example.com/reservations/hotels/it/
is easy to understand that the URL above links to component IOS Reservations.
The parts of the URL right of "reservations" are generated by the component automatically but in many cases these parts are user defined in each component administration and reflect the page's data. For instance the green part of the URL below is generated by the user's input (country, city, hotel name):
http://www.example.com/reservations/hotels/it/roma/super-hotel.html

Especially for component content the base name is empty. There is no "content" in the URL. So, this URL:
http://www.example.com/sports/tennis.html
is the page of an article with seo title tennis in category with seotitle sports

When you click to see a page in Elxis CMS, Elxis gets the first segment of the URL to determine which component to load. If no component is routed to that segment Elxis loads component Content. If it is not a valid URL in component content then component content will generate an Error 404 (page not found).