These suggestions look really good. Thanks! I'll pore over the information and will try to figure it out.
Chas. Tim Perrett wrote: > > Indeed - just reading this thread back and not quite understanding why > its *not* possible to friendly urls in lift.... its very easy as derek > points out. > > Check out: > > http://liftweb.net/index.php/UrlRewriting > > Tim > > On Sep 12, 2:17 pm, "Derek Chen-Becker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> You can get the human-readable pages via the LiftRules.addDispatch... >> methods. They take a partial function which uses a RequestMatcher to >> determine which handler to use for a particular request. In the process, you >> can use Scala's List wildcarding to extract parts of the URL that was passed >> in. The syntax appears to have changed a bit since I tried this last, but in >> Boot you would do something like this: >> >> LiftRules.addDispatchBefore({ >> case RequestMatcher(RequestState("page" :: page_name :: Nil, _, _, _, _, >> _, _, _)) => some_handler(_, page_name) >> >> }) >> >> I know I'm butchering that, but that's the general idea. The "page" :: >> page_name :: Nil matches against the path, so that will match any URL path >> that looks like "/page/<page_name>" and make the latter portion available >> for your handlers. >> >> Derek >> >> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Charles F. Munat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> >>> Marius wrote: >>>>> Also, I like the user-created pages to be accessible by URL (i.e. >>>>> without a query string) with a readable URL, so: >>>>> mysite.com/some_page >>>>> Not: >>>>> mysite.com/p123456, mysite.com?page=some_page, or >>> mysite.com?page=123456 >>>> What is the difference between mysite.com/some_page and mysite.com/ >>>> p123456? I mean what is the exact problem you're trying to solve? >>>> Perhaps a more concrete example may help us help you. >>> A short synopsis can be found here: >>> http://plone.org/products/plone/features/3.0/existing-features/human-... >>> If you Google "human-readable URL," you'll get some other interesting >>> hits. I first encountered the concept years ago when I was spending time >>> on the W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative list. I've been doing my best >>> to use human-readable URLs ever since. >>> But I wasn't actually asking a question, just mentioning this as a >>> desiderata. I'll figure it out when I get to that point. Meanwhile, I am >>> getting my hands dirty -- as you put it -- figuring out the SiteMap and >>> related code. Will post questions as they come up. >>> Chas. > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to liftweb@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
