TYPO3 realurl and tx_news, use title as entire path-segment

Question

I migrated a wordpress website, using the Yoast SEO plugin, to TYPO3 and the news articles have URL's that use only the domain and the title;

## example
http://example.com/news-title/

I work with TYPO3 v8.7.10, tx_news 6.3.0 and realurl 2.3.1
I know how to hide the controller and action name by using fixedPostVars as described in docs.typo3.org
of course I can do a permanant redirect with .htaccess
I know the trick in the configuration with user_encodeSpURL_postProc and user_decodeSpURL_preProc but there I need at least one directory ...

does anybody knows any other option ?

Georg Ringer Georg Ringer · Accepted Answer · 2018-04-03T12:33:19

I propose this solution

1) Skip not needed arguments

By using the following setting

plugin.tx_news {
        settings {
                link {
                        skipControllerAndAction = 1
                }
        }
}

the links don't include the controller and action anymore. I prefer to use this instead of removing it in realurl because of less magic in realurl.

2.) Render the single view on the homepage

Just for clarification: As homepage is the meant the 1st page.

[globalVar = GP:tx_news_pi1|news > 0] && [globalVar = TSFE:id = HOMEPAGE-ID]
  lib.news = USER
  lib.news {
                userFunc = TYPO3\CMS\Extbase\Core\Bootstrap->run
                pluginName = Pi1
                vendorName = GeorgRinger
                extensionName = News
                controller = News
                settings =< plugin.tx_news.settings
                persistence =< plugin.tx_news.persistence
                view =< plugin.tx_news.view
                action = detail
                switchableControllerActions.News.1 = detail
  }
  page.10 < lib.news
[end]

This is just a proof of concept as the final integration depends on how render your templates & content. You could also remove the page.10 < lib.news and check the variable lib.news in your content or you assign it to the variables and check that in the templates.

TYPO3 realurl and tx_news, use title as entire path-segment

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