Item ID in SEF URL started to appear

Hi,

my site is running on joomla 1.5.23 and Flexicontent 1.5.5 stable (r607) with Joomla! default SEF URL enable running.
Everytime i was creating an item, the URL did not have the item ID as a prefix for the item name. URL look great.

But without any changes to flexicontent, besides css changes, i now have the item id showing.
before: domain.com/category-name/item-name.html
now: domain.com/category-name/ID-item-name.html
("ID" being the item id number obviously)
I just moved it from a subdomain during development to the root to be the main site.

does anybody know why?

thanks

You provided 2 URLs.

The first URL without the item id is a url that includes 2 parts, both parts are menu item aliases
- one menu item alias (points to a FLEXIcontent category)
- one menu item alias (points to a FLEXIcontent item)

The second URL with the item id is a url that include 2 parts,
- first part is a menu item alias (points to a FLEXIcontent category)
- second part is the FLEXIcontent item id with its item alias (FCitemID-FCitemALIAS)

About second URL, joomla will know by the first part (the menu item that points FLEXIcontent category)
- that this URL must be handled by component com_flexicontent,
- then it will be given to the FLEXIcontent without the first part
- there the URL handling code of FLEXIcontent will know because of length (one part length) that it is URL that points to a FLEXIcontent item
- then the FLEXIcontent code will extract FLEXIcontent item ID and display the item


The first URL was created like that because a menu item that point to FLEXIcontent item was found

The second URL was created like that because a menu item that point to FLEXIcontent item was NOT found, thus we need to use FLEXIcontent item ID

If you want a URL like the first one please create a menu item that points to the FLEXIcontent item and also make sure you PUBLISH this menu item !!!

Again: thank you ggpdk for the clear explanation.

I now understand why i was getting the ID in the URL for a new items when the old ones did not have it in their URLs.

Simply because i hadn't created the menu item for these new ones yet.

Thanks again.

Bob

I was thinking. Wouldn't be a way to to always have the item URL to dynamically point to a menu item to avoid having the ID showing in the URL?

That's just a question throw out of the blue.

Actually i don't think is bad to have id there, it doesn't look bad.

Plus to put code for this to create a menu item per item maybe too much (an exaggeration) although maybe not a bad idea.

We have some plans to create a pathway that is like:
topcategory1_name/subcategory2_name/subcategory3_name/item_name
or use menu items like it is being done now

when implementing the above, i will examine your suggestion too, but i don't think will add such code

Regards

well, i guess it would be a good/interesting discussion/poll to have: what is and should be a good/friendly URL.

I think the fact that FC is already generating canonical urls is already a major plus as oppose to other extensions.

The ID was bothering mainly for a specific section of a site. But for its blog section, i don't really mind seeing the ID in the URL.
And since i created menu item for the specific section. It's all good on my side anyways.

Cheers again for one of my favorite and most useful extensions out there.