Advanced routing

Question

I am trying to do this. Have a structure url like so: /{id}-{slug} and /{parent.id}/{id}-{slug}

I need the slug on the url but I only for SEO, I want craft to ignore the slug and only go for the ID. So even though it is /{id}-{slug} for craft it would be /{id} and so on.

What would be the recommended approach? Advanced routing? Manually remove the -{slug} and search by {id} on the template? Any other way?

Cheers!

Answer 1

I'd probably setup the following routes:

'blog/*/*' => 'blog/entry',
'blog/*' => 'blog/entry',

And then on the entry template I'd get the last segment and split it to get the ID like so:

{% set segment = craft.request.lastSegment | split('-') %}
{% set id = segment[0] %}
{% set entry = craft.entries.id(id).first %}

That should work for either of your {id}-{slug} examples. Though in practice I'd probably fetch the entry using the slug and not the ID as I think it looks prettier and I don't like IDs in URLs.

Answer 2

I've just been trying to figure this out myself and have a slightly different approach that might work the same with a little less code.

'blog/*/id-<entrySlug:{slug}>' => 'blog/entry',
'blog/id-<entrySlug:{slug}>' => 'blog/entry',

The 'slug' variable with it's value from the url will be available in the template without having to do anything else.