Pagination hack and problem

[Frank71]

Hello,

today I did the mod_rewrite for the pagination and it is working fine without 2 problems:

1. On the second site I lost the category path "You are here".
2. And on the second site I lost the pagination view to go back.

Did anyone also pagination for mod_rewrite an can help ?

And do you know what should I change to use this only for the browse-pagination ?

Frank

[Frank71]

Hmpf, no one here is using mod_rewrite also for pagination ?
I can't believe what are you doing with your sites...

esm: perhaps I have a small order for you, because I need this to be fixed urgently.

Frank

[esm]

mod_rewrite is not my area of expertise. not that I wouldn't mind looking at it for you .

I'm just a little behind in my work!

[Frank71]

Hmpf, I think knowledge about mod_rewrite isn't relay important because I have it done, but to know how pagaination will work could be helpful, because the biggest problems are:

1. Now no pagination on the second site
2. need own pagination only for browse

Frank

[esm]

Originally posted by Frank71
Hmpf, I think knowledge about mod_rewrite isn't relay important because I have it done, but to know how pagaination will work could be helpful...
Frank

OK, here goes but you are not going to like my answer.

you must pass the page parameter to the mod_rewrite function ( not sure about how to word that )

for example, pg_which=2 or pg_which=4 or pg_which=44

that is how the pagination works.

actually, they are a number of other parameters passed. just mouseover the page numbers and you will see.

how all that would work with the mod_rewrite, I do not have a clue.

but at least you know what the pagination process needs to work.

[Frank71]

Thats what I have done and it works, but on the second page the pagination link is gone...
Thats my problem, I can't go back...

Frank

[Frank71]

Dody may be you can help ??

Frank

[bestfx]

Originally posted by Frank71
Hmpf, no one here is using mod_rewrite also for pagination ?
I can't believe what are you doing with your sites...

esm: perhaps I have a small order for you, because I need this to be fixed urgently.

Frank

Attached are the changes I made for user friendly URLs and how I worked the pagination problem. Hope this helps -- write if you need more info.

[esm]

in anticipation that it works, Frank is going to love you!

[Frank71]

Ähm, thanks, but tell me, how should this -->

http://www.mysite.com/cat_more1-3.html

appear in the url through the script ?

There is no sense if the "static" url won't created dynamic by the script ?!

Frank

[Frank71]

Bestfx, can you post your site ?

As I wrote I don't understand how you display the changed URL and it seems, that you changed the order of cat and pg_which - are you sure your hack is working ?

I played a little bit more (because I forgot to save my runing version...) and now I got urls like this:

browse.php-2-94

But ever I try to remove .PHP in the path, the mod won't work ?!

Frank

[bestfx]

Originally posted by Frank71
Ähm, thanks, but tell me, how should this -->

http://www.mysite.com/cat_more1-3.html

appear in the url through the script ?

There is no sense if the "static" url won't created dynamic by the script ?!

Frank

There are 7 places in /lib/pagination.class.php where the url is created dynamiclly as noted in the previous modifications text file.

Your right... I did change the order from browse.php?page_which=3&cat=2 to browse.php?cat=2&page_which=3 because the first method just didn't make sense and kept fouling up the code... both will point to the 3rd page of the 2nd category however.

Now, just follow the directions in the previously attached text doc and make sure you include the following in your .htaccess file.

RewriteRule ^cat_more(.*)-(.*).html browse.php?cat=$1&pg_which=$2

NOTE: using ^category2-3.html in the .htaccess seems to mess up on my machine and simply call the 1st page.

My site (still under intense development and design) is located at http://www.bestfx.com/category3.html... category 3 being the test category for pagination.

Write if I can be of further assistance.

Good luck.

[Frank71]

Hm, I have to look to your file again.
Are your sure you add the change to reform the pagination url to something like that :

http://www.bestfx.com/cat_more3-2.html ?

The rewrite rule is no problem, but I didn't see the change to that in your pagination.class

Frank

[Frank71]

ai,

ok, I checked it again, but in your mod I can't see any way how the last and important rule should be work:

RewriteRule ^cat_more(.*)-(.*).html browse.php?cat=$1&pg_which=$2

Please can you check that again, seems you missed something.

Frank

[bestfx]

Originally posted by Frank71
ai,

ok, I checked it again, but in your mod I can't see any way how the last and important rule should be work:

RewriteRule ^cat_more(.*)-(.*).html browse.php?cat=$1&pg_which=$2

Please can you check that again, seems you missed something.

Frank

Okay, here's my pagination.classs.php file in text format... look for the lines that start:

// MOD START

below are the lines that make the necessary calls from my .htaccess files...

# ADDED TO RUN STATIC PAGES FROM INDEX DIRECTORY
RewriteRule ^category(.*).html browse.php?cat=$1
RewriteRule ^detail(.*).html detail.php?id=$1
RewriteRule ^cat_more(.*)-(.*).html browse.php?cat=$1&pg_which=$2

All I can say is it works for me...

Be careful that you are not trying to call single pages, ie;

category1.html

and the subsequent paginated pages as;

category1-2.html

That dawg just ain't gonna hunt... your call will be looking for a category numbered 1-2 instead of the second page of category number 1.