SEF + Human friendly URL's

[vavroom]

I must sing the praises of a new component that I just discovered.

I had been wanting something that would offer URL's that make sense, like: "/about/archives/current" instead of something like "/section/1/65/".

There is a commercial product out there which I hear is quite good, but I can never afford this kind of stuff.

So I contended myself with the built in SEF feature.

Then found Xaneon Alias Manager. They just released v1.0.2 and it is sweet. There is of course room for improvement, and I believe the dev of it are working to implement a few neat features already.

What it does: Takes the mambo generated URLs, and transforms them into anything you declare. So you can say that when you get "/section/1/65/", the URL should be "/about/archives/current". Or it could be "/anything/you/want/".

*Really* nice. Check it out: http://dev.xaneon.com/

Now, I must point out, I'm just a happy user, don't gain anything by posting this :)

A major advantage: You get good looking, usable URL's.
A major disadvantage: It's not automated, you have to manually define each alias, which could quickly turn out to be a PITA if you have lots of links.

Cheers, and have fun.

[Zorro]

... but automation is on the roadmap, see http://dev.xaneon.com/products/alias/roadmap.html (BTW this is an example of what you get with the Alias Manager).

This looks like an excellent product to me.

Kind regards,
Zorro

[Arto]

Thanks for the kudos, guys. The positive response to Alias Manager (http://dev.xaneon.com/products/alias/), which is our first publicly available component, has been very encouraging 8)

A major advantage: You get good looking, usable URL's.
A major disadvantage: It's not automated, you have to manually define each alias, which could quickly turn out to be a PITA if you have lots of links.Yeah, that's the only catch: you get URLs that look *exactly* the way you want them to, but at the cost of some manual labor :mrgreen:

... but automation is on the roadmap, see http://dev.xaneon.com/products/alias/roadmap.html (BTW this is an example of what you get with the Alias Manager).That's right; version 1.1 will allow you to quickly import your existing site structure, and the next major release beyond that will take the whole component an order of magnitude closer towards a comprehensive SEF solution.

[vavroom]

Yeah, that's the only catch: you get URLs that look *exactly* the way you want them to, but at the cost of some manual labor

*Some*?? LOL I have so far over 100 forwarders on a site. Yeowza.

That's right; version 1.1 will allow you to quickly import your existing site structure, and the next major release beyond that will take the whole component an order of magnitude closer towards a comprehensive SEF solution.

What would be really cool, I think, would be if all active links could be pulled into a list, associated with what section/category/item or combination thereof, then the new suggested alias, with a manual override.

So you could get something like this:
URL: /content/view/45/2/
Refers to: My Section, My Category, My Page
Suggested Alias: /mysection/mycategory/mypage
Do you want to override?

Just food for thoughts.

[Arto]

*Some*?? LOL I have so far over 100 forwarders on a site. Yeowza. :mrgreen:

What would be really cool, I think, would be if all active links could be pulled into a list, associated with what section/category/item or combination thereof, then the new suggested alias, with a manual override.We're working somewhat along those lines. Additional features of interest in 1.1 will include preliminary front-end multilanguage support and a new option for automatic component URL "prettification" (/component/option,com_simpleboard/ -> /simpleboard/). We should have 1.1.0 out sometime this week and it will be an easy upgrade for current 1.0.2 users.

[Zorro]

That's right; version 1.1 will allow you to quickly import your existing site structure, and the next major release beyond that will take the whole component an order of magnitude closer towards a comprehensive SEF solution.
Did I say I can't wait for this to be released? :mrgreen:

Now for getting some pizza to Spain ... hmmm *g*

Kind regards,
Zorro