Search engine friendly URL's while using jreviews

January 22, 2007 at 04:13 AM

I installed the SEF advanced component (http://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,362/Itemid,35/) to my site so that I could have search engine friendly URLs, but it doesn't help with the pages created by jreviews. I asked the author of SEF_advance if it would work with jreviews and he pointed me to these FAQ. He makes it sound like it may not be hard for a 3rd party developer (like jreviews) to make their component compatible with his and I'm wondering if this can be done.

FAQ from SEF_adavanced developers site below: http://www.sakic.net/support/faq/sef_advance/#23

Will SEF Advance work for 3rd party components?

SEF Advance will rewrite core content and all core component URLs to "nice", human friendly, URLs. If the component has SEF Advance extension, it will also get advanced URLs. Otherwise, if component is SEF enabled, its URLs will be same as with standart built-in SEF.

How can I get advanced URLs for my component?

You need to develop SEF Advance extension (sef_ext.php) for your component and put it in the component's main directory. For more info about the extension format read the SEF Advance readme file and refer to included extension example file (sef_ext.php). Also take a look on already developed extensions like e.g. for Userlist component.

Can you develop SEF Advance extension for 3rd party component I need?

Yes, but this is subject to additional charges for custom programming. In the first hand you should contact the component's author with request for SEF Advance extension. If he is not willing to do it you can contact me for a quote where cost depends on the component's complexity.

Thanks,

Stephen

January 22, 2007 at 04:31 AM