Remove Category IDs from URL?

Hi,

My setup involves individual items being linked to many categories. This is so that users can browse to the item via different methods (which is exactly what I wanted! )

However, because I have setup categories with the same name (in different locations) they obviously have different IDs which I dont have a problem with, but this is shown in the URL; like this:

../index.php/range/15-dairy.html

Is there a way I can remove '15-' from the URL? An ID also appears on my item view aswell. Like this:

range/item/1-milk.html

Again, I would like to be able to remove the ID from the URL. I have tried HP Router plugin (third party) but it does not work with FlexiContent. Is this possible at all to achieve?

Thanks for any help, and I have to say I love FlexiContent so far.. it's so much easier to control than K2!

hello you use a sef composant ? are joomla SEF ?
with joomla sef it's not possible
with acesf it's possible
regards

Hi Micker,

Yes I was just using Joomla SEF? I'm downloading AceSEF now (the free 1!) I'll let you know if I can/can't get it working. Thanks for your help.

hello
after installing
install flexicontent extention ACESEF
and in configuration panel remove id option in url
Regards

Yes I have done all this and it appears to work very well! ... However I have noticed one issue which is confusing me.

The alias of a menu item (a flexicontent menu item) and the alias of the category (assigned in flexicontent) both appear in the URL. For example:

'.com/range/range/dairy/milk.html'

I can't understand why AceSEF or flexicontent is using the menu item alias and then the category alias BOTH in the URL. Couldnt find an option to edit this one easily either :x

hello did you use the flexicontent option of acesef plugin ?(it's possible)

Hi, yes sorry I have now fixed the problem. I installed flexicontent extesion in AceSEF but then did not select to 'skip prefix/menu'. This has fixed the issue. Thanks.

is this possible to do with SH404SEF?

I have noticed that the URL's show "item" as well as their id number.

I would like it to just show category names, or article names without the word "item" in the URL (or the ID number)

any ideas?

Hi,

Can you do some tests with the latest SVN version with a little bug fix in the SH404 plugin.

Checkout the latest version or apply the bug fix explained in the issue 51 of the bug tracker.
code.google.com/p/flexicontent/i ... tail?id=51

It works for me.

Regards

hello if the problm is solved edit your post and add [solved]
thanks