Friendly URLs with querystring params for articles and galleries

[halftrainedharry]

Extras that have this functionality in MODX usually work as follows:

• There is a plugin that runs on the event OnPageNotFound
• In the plugin, the code checks if the beginning of the request URL path matches certain resource-aliases.
• With $modx->sendForward(...) the request is redirected to the correct resource.

You could write such a plugin yourself. Here is some sample code:

Check urls against unauthorized 404 page

This doesn’t work with a snippet. It has to be a plugin. (The plugins are located in the same “Elements” tab below the snippets.) Then in the plugin code, check the value of the request parameter q ($_REQUEST['q']). If the parameter has the format gallery/photo-x, use the function $modx->sendForward() to load the gallery page (and maybe also set $_REQUEST/$_GET['some_parameter_name'] to the value of “photo-x”, so that value can then be used on the gallery page to load the correct image). So…

You could use the extra CustomRequest, if you don’t want to code yourself.

Or use a RewriteRule in the .htaccess file (which I personally don’t like as it’s hard to debug).

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Also, if you use pdoPage for the paging (part of the pdoTools extra), then I believe there is built-in option for friendly page URLs.