GTB issue

Newbie Joined: Jul 14, 2009 Posts: 14

I been playing around with shortlinks in plat.

for the most part i have gotten everything to work as expected cept for the downloads blocks.

the EDL module taps fine. but the NSCenter_downloads and Advanced_Downloads will not tap correctly. and its related in how it outputs the download details.

correct (in the EDL module itself
downloaddetails-83-3990-Nuke-Plat_EDL_downloads_module_patch_3-4-2010.html#dldetails

incorrect in the 2 blocks
downloads.html&d_op=viewdownloaddetails&cid=83&lid=3990&title=Nuke-Plat%20EDL%20downloads%20module%20patch%203-4-2010#dldetails

i have went as far as in my GTB-block-NSCenter_Downloads.php pasting the entire GT-Downloads.php content in the file and i cant seem to get it to change the links correctly

something im missing maybe?

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Feb 12, 2005 Posts: 1294

Looks like EDL is passing titles on the URL string! This is terrible! This is why I stripped ttitle out of Downloads and Web Links in RavenNuke(tm).

Fortunately, I think you can still get this to work, however, you need to make sure every one of these possible characters in your title strings (the encoded values in the URLs) are included in the pattern for the "title=" variable.

Newbie Joined: Jul 14, 2009 Posts: 14

well this is the downloads details line i have

modules.php\?name=Downloads&d_op=viewdownloaddetails&cid=([0-9]*)&lid=([0-9]*)&ttitle=([/:\-\'{}()\,\._&a-zA-Z0-9+= ]

which looks to me all there. (unless im overlooking something)

if i change the ttitle to title i get
downloaddetails-61-2019-Fall of the Republic.html#dldetails

which gives a 404

but its close to what EDL mod puts out with its
downloaddetails-61-2019-Fall_of_the_Republic.html#dldetails

missing the _ somewhere....

Newbie Joined: Jul 14, 2009 Posts: 14

ok. after taking a break. and walking away for a bit thinking.

i used your idea and stripped the title call in the url. now i get

downloaddetails-47-3987-.html

in both blocks which works just fine.

i think I may just go though the module also and strip out the ttitle calls also.

but I got it working!

learned a bit to.

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Feb 12, 2005 Posts: 1294

Yup, that is what it takes... taking breaks, coming back to it, learning along the way, etc... all good stuff.

Newbie Joined: Jul 14, 2009 Posts: 14

its prob going to be a headache once i dig into the edl module and strip out all the ttitle references in the urls

tbh prob should have went that route when the module was made, IMO

cat-lid is alot better then cat-lid-ttitle.

and from what i can tell seems to tap better with just cat-lid

Newbie Joined: Jul 14, 2009 Posts: 14

update.

I did like you done and stripped title from the url call.

now the blocks and module tap corectly and with the same tap url

both now tap /downloadsdetail-catid-lid.html

which works for me Laughing

thanks for the idea stripping title out of the urls

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Feb 12, 2005 Posts: 1294

You are very welcome. Good job!