Using SH404sef with flexicontent

Evening,

Trying to set up on Joomla 2.5 website flexicontent version 2.0.1 (r1659) with sh404sef 3.7.0.1485.

I have been trying to use the menu alias as the url to no success. Can anyone shed any light on how it is proposed to set up sh404sef to display urls without categories in the url in flexicontent. I can set the articles ok, however cant see on to use the menu alias rather that the category to generate the url.

I have also run into problems with the url generated by selecting the categories option. Seems to generate a url in the format.
These are obviously the Id's of the categories but just displays the homepage. I suspect that their is setting/s wrong somewhere but I cant seem to find it at the moment.

Thanks

Thatch

Hi,
just for my understanding. What are the exact reasons why you want to use a SEF component?
Rooney

Its an established site where sh404sef was previously used with lots of SEO custom titles and descriptions. This is without the duplicate errors which Joomla can introduce.

Multi-category view
is a new feature of flexicontent, so the plugin must be updated

try this in file
components/com_flexicontent/sef_ext/com_flexicontent.php

find second occurence of (exists 2 times inside file): and after the above add:
Post back here with results and i will update the plguin for future flexicontent versions

George, thanks for the quick response.

I have added the lines that you suggested to

components/com_flexicontent/sef_ext/com_flexicontent.php

(around line 282) and I now get the url

?layout=mcats

would think from the code (I'm no coder) that this removes the variables from the url which it seems to do, however no writing to the sef url.

Thatch

Hello,
you are right,

about URL rewritting i think the appropriate thing to do is

1. use the menu item alias, if current menu item matches and
2. if it does not matches (e.g. it is a link was written via a WYSIWYG editor OR custom code) then leave the variables 'cids' and 'layout' in the URL (not removing them)