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Ads Manager Router Full Version

Administrator — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 01:36:28 -0700

Several people found my Ads Manager router useful. but since it was not built for the front end ad management facility, my version missed handling those specific tasks and views.

One guy "agu" who posted a comment on my previous post on Ads Manager Router took my router and advanced it further, and later mailed me the updated version.

I'm posting it here,please comment if this is useful,since he also is keen to know how good his code turned out to be.He said he has used it successfully, so this might be the answer to many of your requirement, those who need a more complete router.

BTW, heard that there are several updated versions of Ads Manager coming along, can anybody point me to one of them?

{codecitation class="brush:php;html-script:false;}getActive(); $firstSegment = $segments[0]; switch($firstSegment){ case 'categories'; $vars['page'] = "show_category"; if(isset($segments[1])){ $vars['catid'] = $segments[1]; $vars['Itemid'] = $item; } break; case 'ads'; $vars['page'] = "show_ad"; if(isset($segments[1])){ $vars['catid'] = $segments[1]; } if(isset($segments[3])){ $vars['adid'] = $segments[3]; } $vars['Itemid'] = $item; break; case 'post'; $vars['page'] = "write_ad"; if(isset($segments[1])){ $vars['catid'] = $segments[1]; } if(isset($segments[3])){ $vars['adid'] = $segments[3]; } $vars['Itemid'] = $item; break; case 'save'; $vars['page'] = "save_ad"; if(isset($segments[1])){ $vars['catid'] = $segments[1]; } if(isset($segments[3])){ $vars['adid'] = $segments[3]; } $vars['Itemid'] = $item; break; case 'search'; $vars['page'] = "show_search"; if(isset($segments[1])){ $vars['catid'] = $segments[1]; } if(isset($segments[3])){ $vars['adid'] = $segments[3]; } $vars['Itemid'] = $item; break; case 'allads'; $vars['page'] = "show_all"; if(isset($segments[1])){ $vars['catid'] = $segments[1]; } if(isset($segments[3])){ $vars['adid'] = $segments[3]; } $vars['Itemid'] = $item; break; case 'rules'; $vars['page'] = "show_rules"; if(isset($segments[1])){ $vars['catid'] = $segments[1]; } if(isset($segments[3])){ $vars['adid'] = $segments[3]; } $vars['Itemid'] = $item; break; case 'delete'; $vars['page'] = "delete_ad"; if(isset($segments[1])){ $vars['catid'] = $segments[1]; } if(isset($segments[3])){ $vars['adid'] = $segments[3]; } $vars['Itemid'] = $item; break; case 'result'; $vars['page'] = "show_result"; if(isset($segments[1])){ $vars['catid'] = $segments[1]; } if(isset($segments[3])){ $vars['adid'] = $segments[3]; } $vars['Itemid'] = $item; break; case 'advsearch'; $vars['page'] = "search"; if(isset($segments[1])){ $vars['catid'] = $segments[1]; } if(isset($segments[3])){ $vars['adid'] = $segments[3]; } $vars['Itemid'] = $item; break; } return $vars; } function getCategoryTitle($id){ $db = & JFactory::getDBO(); $query = "SELECT `name`,`parent` FROM #__adsmanager_categories WHERE `id`=".$id; $db->setQuery($query); $category_name = $db->loadResult(); if($category_name=="") return; you can add nested categories here $category_alias = strtolower($category_name); Remove following characters $special_chars = array('!','@','#','$','%','*','(',')'); foreach($special_chars as $char){ $category_alias = str_replace($char,'', $category_alias); } $category_alias = str_replace(' ','-', $category_alias); $category_alias = str_replace(' ','-', $category_alias); return $category_alias; } function getAdTitle($id){ $db = & JFactory::getDBO(); $query = "SELECT `ad_headline` FROM #__adsmanager_ads WHERE `id`=".$id; $db->setQuery($query); $ad_name = $db->loadResult(); if($ad_name=="") return; you can add nested categories here $ad_alias = strtolower($ad_name); Remove following characters $special_chars = array('!','@','#','$','%','*','(',')'); foreach($special_chars as $char){ $ad_alias = str_replace($char,'', $ad_alias); } $ad_alias = str_replace(' ','-', $ad_alias); $ad_alias = str_replace(' ','-', $ad_alias); return $ad_alias; } ?> {codecitation}

SEF Router for AdsManager using component native router.php

Administrator — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 13:16:48 -0700

the Joomla! AdsManager component is pretty beautiful, and easy to use and modify to suit your requirement. The only major problem it seems to have is that it has a SEF Plugin that requires a commercial purchase from 3rd Party, and there is no native router as available now in Joomla!
Joomla! now allows a component developer to put a router.php in the component root and then this acts as an override of the URL parser functions of the Joomla! core JRoute Class.

I recently developed a router.php for AdsMananger... so if anybody needs it , copy the code, paste it and save it as router.php inside the component's root folder, and turn on Joomla! SEF and you should be ready to go.

NOTE:Here is the updated and more complete version of the router.

{codecitation class="brush:php"} getActive(); $firstSegment = $segments[0]; switch($firstSegment){ case 'adventures'; $vars['page'] = "show_category"; if(isset($segments[1])){ $vars['catid'] = $segments[1]; $vars['Itemid'] = $item; } break; case 'tours'; $vars['page'] = "show_ad"; if(isset($segments[1])){ $vars['catid'] = $segments[1]; } if(isset($segments[3])){ $vars['adid'] = $segments[3]; } $vars['Itemid'] = $item; break; } return $vars; } function getCategoryTitle($id){ $db = & JFactory::getDBO(); $query = "SELECT `name`,`parent` FROM #__adsmanager_categories WHERE `id`=".$id; $db->setQuery($query); $category_name = $db->loadResult(); if($category_name=="") return; you can add nested categories here $category_alias = strtolower($category_name); Remove following characters $special_chars = array('!','@','#','$','%','*','(',')'); foreach($special_chars as $char){ $category_alias = str_replace($char,'', $category_alias); } $category_alias = str_replace(' ','-', $category_alias); $category_alias = str_replace(' ','-', $category_alias); return $category_alias; } function getAdTitle($id){ $db = & JFactory::getDBO(); $query = "SELECT `ad_headline` FROM #__adsmanager_ads WHERE `id`=".$id; $db->setQuery($query); $ad_name = $db->loadResult(); if($ad_name=="") return; you can add nested categories here $ad_alias = strtolower($ad_name); Remove following characters $special_chars = array('!','@','#','$','%','*','(',')'); foreach($special_chars as $char){ $ad_alias = str_replace($char,'', $ad_alias); } $ad_alias = str_replace(' ','-', $ad_alias); $ad_alias = str_replace(' ','-', $ad_alias); return $ad_alias; } ?> {codecitation}

SOBI2 and Large Databases with tens of thousands of records

Administrator — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 14:23:20 -0700

SOBI2 is fine for sites with moderate database sizes and moderate traffics, but when the number of records in your database exceeds 10s of thousands (and in our case it was 50000), SOBI2 might fail in generating the search