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1. buckrogers
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I have a question on permalinks.
    
   I added some code to my template page.php.  The code checks for a specific page ID then generates dynamic content based on two inputs (state and town).
    
   I also have code in .htaccess to rewrite my the URL.  I request /consultants/NH/Manchester and it will translate to index.php?page_id=100&state=NH&town=Manchester.
    
   If I disable permalinks, this works fine.  If I enable permalinks, the browser gets a 302 redirect to the actual permalink for page_id 100.  In this case /category/consultants-directory.
    
   Can someone explain which function executes the 302 redirect.  I can change it to ignore the 302 if the page_id=100.  There could be a better way to do this.  Suggestions?

2. Chrome Orange
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Did you ever resolve this, I'm trying to do something similar

   Thanks

3. buckrogers
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Yes, but it's not a nice solution. I didn't have time to figure out how the permalink functions work. Or I couldn't figure it out after a week of late nights. I just needed this for one page ID. I changed it in wp-includes/canonical.php. I added one line to ignore the function for my page ID. A better way is to use a custom field if you have multiple pages you want this for:

   if ( $do_redirect ) {
   		//CHR this line will exclude permalink translation for a single page
                     //Use it to call a page with dynamic page generation code
   	    if ( get_query_var('page_id') == "1137" ) return false;
   		// CHR end modification for 31 directory
   
   		// protect against chained redirects
   		if ( !redirect_canonical($redirect_url, false) ) {
   			wp_redirect($redirect_url, 301);
   			exit();
   		} else {
   			// Debug
   			// die("1: $redirect_url<br />2: " . redirect_canonical( $redirect_url, false ) );
   			return false;
   		}
   	} else {
   		return $redirect_url;
   	}

   Remember to make a backup copy after the change. The next WordPress upgrade will overwrite this.

4. Chrome Orange
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Thank you for the reply. Unfortunately I couldn't do it your way ao after further investigation (ycrta asking on the forum again) my prayers were answered

   http://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-and-getting-the-id-which-file?replies=3

   points me to http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/WP_Rewrite

   What this means is I can have

   http://www.domain.com/your-town-is-TOWNNAME/

   convert to http://www.domain.com/index.php?pagename=your-town-is&town=TOWNNAME

   So I only need to write 1 page (your-town-is) and use some shortcode to GET the town variable and replace [town] with the variable

   Perfect solution for me.

5. buckrogers
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Did you figure this out? It will be very helpful if you explain how you did it. I have a similar setup that translate /statelist to index.php?page_id=1137&input1=statelist in my .htaccess file. I then have dynamic code in my template page.php that generates the content.

   How do I get rid of the original permalink for page_id=1137?

   Thanks
   Chris

6. Chrome Orange
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I did it by creating a new function in functions.php and editing the .htaccess file

   for the sake of this lets say that the permalink for your page_id 1137 is STATELIST and input1 is OHIO

   The user would click on a link http://www.DOMAIN.com/statelist-ohio/

   This goes in functions.php and converts the link into something wordpress can use.

   add_filter('rewrite_rules_array','wp_insertMyRewriteRules');
   add_filter('query_vars','wp_insertMyRewriteQueryVars');
   add_filter('init','flushRules');
   
   // Remember to flush_rules() when adding rules
   function flushRules(){
   	global $wp_rewrite;
      	$wp_rewrite->flush_rules();
   }
   
   // Adding a new rule
   function wp_insertMyRewriteRules($rules)
   {
   	$newrules = array();
   	$newrules['(statelist-)(.+?)$'] = 'index.php?pagename=$matches[1]&input1=$matches[2]';
   	return $newrules + $rules;
   }
   
   // Adding the id var so that WP recognizes it
   function wp_insertMyRewriteQueryVars($vars)
   {
       array_push($vars, 'id');
       return $vars;
   }

   and my .htaccess looks like this

   <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   
   	Options +FollowSymlinks
   	RewriteEngine On
   	RewriteOptions MaxRedirects=10
   
   	RewriteBase /SUBFOLDER/
   
   	RewriteRule ^statelist-([^/\.]+)/?$ /SUBFOLDER/index.php?pagename=windows-in&town=$1 [QSA,L]
   
   #	RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
   	RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   	RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
   	RewriteRule . /SUBFOLDER/index.php [L]
   
   </IfModule>

   obviously replace SUBFOLDER as necessary for your setup

   Now just GET input1 as necessary.

7. buckrogers
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Great thanks! This worked for me.

8. alex chousmith
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   just wanted to say Thanks for this - it totally works, just what i was looking for, and is are very slick solution

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