I am developing a custom component for Joomla! for the first time and I am stuck on the creation of a router.php. I alredy read the Joomla! Documentation but without clearly understand what to do.
Actually, the link to the single view of my component is:
index.php?option=com_layadvisory&view=layadvisory&id={$dataItem->id}
But I want the user to display OR:
www.mysite.com/Lay-Advisory/1
OR:
www.mysite.com/Lay-Advisory/person/1
Where 1 is the ID of the selected person. I know that I must create the build(&$query) and the parse($segments) function, but I can't understand how. Is there anyone that can direct me to the right path to follow? Thank you.
P.S. $dataItem->id is pulled from $this->data (via a foreach loop).
UPDATE:
I managed to get this result:
www.mysite.com/Lay-Advisory/id-Name-of-the-person
But when I go on the details/single page of the component, this notice appears:
Notice: Undefined index: name in components\com_layadvisory\router.php
My router.php is
* @copyright 2016 RCPSG
* @license GNU General Public License version 2 or later; see LICENSE.txt
*/
// No direct access
defined('_JEXEC') or die;
JLoader::registerPrefix('Layadvisory', JPATH_SITE . '/components/com_layadvisory/');
/**
* Class LayadvisoryRouter
*
* @since 3.3
*/
class LayadvisoryRouter extends JComponentRouterBase
{
/**
* Build method for URLs
* This method is meant to transform the query parameters into a more human
* readable form. It is only executed when SEF mode is switched on.
*
* @param array &$query An array of URL arguments
*
* @return array The URL arguments to use to assemble the subsequent URL.
*
* @since 3.3
*/
public function build(&$query)
{
$segments = array();
if (isset($query['view'])) {
//$segments[] = $query['view'];
unset($query['view']);
}
if(isset($query['id']))
{
$segments[] = $query['id']."-".$query['name'];
unset($query['id']);
unset($query['name']);
}
return $segments;
}
/**
* Parse method for URLs
* This method is meant to transform the human readable URL back into
* query parameters. It is only executed when SEF mode is switched on.
*
* @param array &$segments The segments of the URL to parse.
*
* @return array The URL attributes to be used by the application.
*
* @since 3.3
*/
public function parse(&$segments)
{
$vars = array();
$vars['view'] = "layadvisory";
$aux = explode(":",$segments[0]);
$vars['id'] = $aux[0];
return $vars;
}
}
My JRoute link is:
$link = JRoute::_( "index.php?option=com_layadvisory&view=layadvisory&id={$dataItem->id}&name={$dataItem->name}" );
