krileonIt has been a long time coming that we redo our router. That time is finally here. I've rewritten our router file from the ground up using latest techniques available to Joomla. All core views have SEF usage now. In addition to this the URL view will properly be removed if it has a menu usage associated with it and that menu usages view matches. See below several examples of the new URLs to be output during SEF.
Note the FIRST value of every URL will ALWAYS be the Menu Alias. There is absolutely no removing this. It is how Joomla knows what component is being accessed and what view for that component.
Old: /profile/userprofile/krileon
New: /profile/krileon
Old: /profile/emailuser?uid=42
New: /profile/emailuser/krileon
Old: /profile/userdetails?uid=43
New: /profile/userdetails/demouser
New: /profile-edit/demouser
Old: /manage-connections/manageconnections
New: /manage-connections
Old: /community/pluginclass?plugin=cbgroupjive&action=groups&func=show&id=10
New: /community?action=groups&func=show&id=10
New: /community/1-category-001/10-group-010 (with custom plugin routing!)
If a URL matches a menu item and the views match it will remove the view from the SEF URL allowing it to nicely reduce down. As you can see above for the plugin menu items, profile view, and profile edit.
In addition to this you may have noticed the new plugin SEF URL for CB GroupJive. Basically 2 triggers have been added to pluginclass routing. What this allows is for each plugin to individually rewrite its own URLs. You will not immediately see the second case shown above for GJ until that has been implemented and released in a new GJ release, but it means plugin URLs don't have to be ugly anymore.
This brings us 1 step closer to even stronger SEO. Don't worry about your older URLs either as this is completely backwards compatible allowing CB 1.x, CB 2.x, and this new usage to still work! Next we'll be looking into customized profile aliases to allow your users to customize what their profile URL should be.
