Has anyone solved the URL Alias/menu and question marks issue?

[tobiaseigen]

Hi,

Using civicrm 1.9 and Kabissa module developed by the civicrm team.
 
I am continually struggling with an issue on my site relating to URL Aliases and menu items and civicrm URLs requiring question marks and ampersands in the URLs. This does not work due to an apparent bug in drupal, as explained here. I want to link to civi on the menu, and also create attractive URLs for various civi pages - and am unable to do this.

Ideally I would do this in a drupal way and on an ongoing basis as needed - ie using the menu admin and url aliases.

We can't turn off clean urls.

The solution we found last fall for this is too cumbersome for the number of links I want to set up. Back then we created an empty page containing code like this: 

Code: [Select]

<?php 
  {header ("Location: http://foo.bar.org/civicrm/kabissa/signup?reset=1&action=add"); exit;}
?>

Especially because these civicrm links don't work in menus either, we are in urgent need of a solution that works! 

Cheers,

Tobias

[catya]

We're doing roughly the same workaround - a redirect page that has

[!--break--]
[?php drupal_goto('civicrm/profile/create', 'reset=1&gid=2'); ?]

Which corresponds to the URL /civicrm/profile/create?reset=1&gid=2. Note that there are two parameters to the function; they are the two halves of the URL if you split it at the question mark.

Then we point the menu to the redirect page...

[geilhufe]

I've tried to get Drupal devs to look at this, but there is no one that I can convince to spend some time.
It is also part of Drupal core, so any changes will not come out till Drupal 7.

Any php devs want to look at path.inc in Drupal core and figure out what is stripping the "?" character from submitted URLs? I suspect it is some sanitizing function for user submitted content.

[tobiaseigen]

thanks catya and david - these are helpful. glad to know i'm not alone here! ;-)

I handled it myself using a redirect in .htaccess. Easier to manage a list of redirects there than to create a list of drupal pages that I will lose track of.

Cheers,

Tobias

[sonicthoughts]

I'm having the same trouble - want to create a custom menu with deep links. The '?' messes up the URL alias mechanism in drupal also.  will post if i find a clean work-around.

[tobiaseigen]

The closest thing to a solution is presented in a comment here:

http://drupal.org/node/118072

The safest thing, still, is to use URL redirects in .htaccess.

Cheers,

Tobias

[dbabbage]

This issue has apparently been solved in Drupal 6 and CiviCRM 2.2 (or may have been 2.1). However, it wasn't working for me.

I was trying to alias the following url in D6: http://example.com/civicrm/event/register?id=1&reset=1
I wanted it to display as: http://example.com/events/2009/conference/register

It wasn't working. Instead it was redirecting to the event configuration page. However, I stumbled upon a solution. If I set the url to alias as: http://example.com/civicrm/event/register/?id=1&reset=1
...with an extra slash after the "register", it then redirects correctly to: http://example.com/events/2009/conference/register?id=1

Which works! I don't know if the dropping of the &reset=1 is of significance, but so far it appears to work. So this seems to be a bug, but it's a pretty easy one to work around until it can be fixed.

My original post in the drupal.org issue queues detailing this:
http://drupal.org/node/118072#comment-1409082

[tobiaseigen]

GREAT! Glad to hear this is solved in drupal 6 and  civi 2.2. It means alot to me, and we are moving to those versions at Kabissa. 

Still seems a little kludgy, but at least we're able to create aliases within drupal. 

Cheers,

Tobias

[hintbw]

Any thoughts from any core developers on the question of whether dropping the &reset=1 on civievent forms will cause issues? What does this parameter actually do? The URL shortening below works well but I don't want the dropping of the &reset=1 to come back and bite me.

This issue has apparently been solved in Drupal 6 and CiviCRM 2.2 (or may have been 2.1). However, it wasn't working for me.

I was trying to alias the following url in D6: http://example.com/civicrm/event/register?id=1&reset=1
I wanted it to display as: http://example.com/events/2009/conference/register

It wasn't working. Instead it was redirecting to the event configuration page. However, I stumbled upon a solution. If I set the url to alias as: http://example.com/civicrm/event/register/?id=1&reset=1
...with an extra slash after the "register", it then redirects correctly to: http://example.com/events/2009/conference/register?id=1

Which works! I don't know if the dropping of the &reset=1 is of significance, but so far it appears to work. So this seems to be a bug, but it's a pretty easy one to work around until it can be fixed.

My original post in the drupal.org issue queues detailing this:
http://drupal.org/node/118072#comment-1409082

[Donald Lobo]

basically reset=1 clears out the session scope for that page. So in case someone revisits the page, the old information is cleared out.

We recommend you do not omit "reset=1" from the url. at some point it will land u in trouble

lobo

[jugney]

Just wanted to point out for users who might come across this thread in the future, this does not work on 3.0 (beta). At least, in some browsers. It works in Firefox and Safari but not versions of Internet Explorer.

[duncanc]

I had a simlar problem wanting to have an alias to allow user registration
signup to be an alias for civicrm/profile/create&reset=1&gid=7

I've found what I think is a proper solution by implementing the custom_url_rewrite_inbound() function and have posted it on the Drupal issues forum, see http://drupal.org/node/118072#comment-2857522

[datakid]

I've found what I think is a proper solution by implementing the custom_url_rewrite_inbound() function and have posted it on the Drupal issues forum, see http://drupal.org/node/118072#comment-2857522

Did you get it to work? I'm looking for a solution to this as well

cheers
L.

[Remixen]

I am trying to create a path alias for "civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=4"

I have tried escaping the characters without result. It seems like the alias works all the way up the the "?" then basically doesn't pass any of the arguments past the "?".

I am thinking this might be related to clean URLs and .htaccess doing something to the question mark. I am not a programmer, but more that willing to test and debug if provided a little direction.