Friendly URL problem in front module - Prestashop

Question

I am building a front module for a website that is using 301 Moved Permanently option in SEO and URLs configuration. Wesbite uses Prestashop 1.6.1.9.

In module, I am defining the route like this:

public static $ModuleRoutes = array(
    'module-aacategories-viewmapping-mapping' => array(
        'controller' => 'viewmapping',
        'rule' => 'mappings{/:tree}',
        'keywords' => array(
            'tree' =>        array('regexp' => '[/_a-zA-Z0-9-\pL]*', 'param' => 'tree'),
        ),
        'params' => array(
            'fc' => 'module',
            'module' => 'aacategories',
        )
    )
);

In browser address bar, when I enter:

site.local/en/mappings/test-map/first-test

I get:

Please use the following URL instead:

site.local/en/index.php?controller=viewmapping&tree=test-map%2Ffirst-test&module=aacategories

This latter link gives 404. However, when I append &fc=module to the url, it goes to desired page.

The problems:

1- How to force Prestashop routing to append &fc=module at the end?

2- How to keep the friendly url in address bar and not be redirected?

Note: When I change configuration in SEO and URLs to no redirection, then it works. But it is not the configuration needed in prod.

Your help is much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

It's working fine for me, what is your controller class naming? And the module routes array needs to be returned from method hookModuleRoutes. The hook has to be registered obviously. — TheDrot
@TheDrot, thank you very much for your time. Controller class name is AacategoriesViewmappingModuleFrontController and I am returning the array from hookModuleRoutes. Everything is working except the URLs. It is really weird! here is the link to module github.com/arouiadib/aa_categories . Again thanks sir — Adib Aroui

TheDrot TheDrot · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-19T20:00:27

The problem is you are setting public property $php_self in your module controller.

You need to remove the property so that core front controller does not do a canonical redirect.

The code that does this is in FrontController.php line 378.

if (!empty($this->page_name)) {
    $page_name = $this->page_name;
} elseif (!empty($this->php_self)) {
    $page_name = $this->php_self;
} elseif (Tools::getValue('fc') == 'module' && $module_name != '' && (Module::getInstanceByName($module_name) instanceof PaymentModule)) {
    $page_name = 'module-payment-submit';
}
// @retrocompatibility Are we in a module ?
elseif (preg_match('#^'.preg_quote($this->context->shop->physical_uri, '#').'modules/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+?)/(.*)$#', $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], $m)) {
    $page_name = 'module-'.$m[1].'-'.str_replace(array('.php', '/'), array('', '-'), $m[2]);
} else {
    $page_name = Dispatcher::getInstance()->getController();
    $page_name = (preg_match('/^[0-9]/', $page_name) ? 'page_'.$page_name : $page_name);
}

And then does a canonical redirect if you set that property on line 401.

if (!empty($this->php_self) && !Tools::getValue('ajax')) {
    $this->canonicalRedirection($this->context->link->getPageLink($this->php_self, $this->ssl, $this->context->language->id));
}

Friendly URL problem in front module - Prestashop

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