[thelist] Joomla / custom forms / SEF
Bob Meetin - www.dottedi.biz
bobm at dottedi.biz
Mon Oct 1 08:30:33 CDT 2007
Seemingly a year (a long week) later I think I have it. I visited the
Joomla forum and someone got back to me to take a look at this page for
Joomla extensions:
http://extensions.joomla.org/index.php?option=com_mtree&task=listcats&cat_id=1873&Itemid=35
which is what I'd found, just wasn't sure.
I tried out several before I finally got one to work, Jumi but only
after I installed the Jumi Plug-in as well. There is a pre-installed
module called Code Support, however the documentation is not very
helpful and I don't know if it does anything.
For search-engine friendly URL's I installed the package,
com_sh404SEF-1.2.4w.zip. It seems to work well, but in rewriting URL's
it adds 'index.php' in the path by default; hopefully that is just a
configuration issue which I haven't figured out yet.
This:
www.whatever.com/index.php?option=com_content&Itemid=30&id=16&lang=en&task=view
about.php
Now looks like: www.whatever.com/index.php/about.php
Would be sweeter if: www.whatever.com/about.php --> as this would
be the URL which google sees now.
The next task, for me, is to figure out how to hook into Joomla sessions
so that I don't have to go it alone, jerry-rig.
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Bob Meetin - www.dottedi.biz wrote:
> I have a site which is going to require a CMS package and Joomla looks
> like the best choice. It can be had with an integrated shoping cart
> module, Virtuemart, which is what customer A needs.
>
> The question - I have a number of custom forms, data collection forms,
> some multi-page using header and Location to etch the next page. I have
> never done any genuine customization of any of the CMS packages to
> incorporate my tools, forms, etc. I could use a suggestion or two. I
> did a google and found some links to forms/joomla, but really I could
> use some feedback on these if this is the way to go, etc.
>
> http://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,listcats/cat_id,1828/Itemid,35/
>
> As some of the current forms are already indexed by google, say
> www.abc.com/complaint_form.php, will I be able to readily configure
> search engine friendly URLs in Joomla to point to my live forms?
>
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