Question

I have the following component @

?option=com_tmportal&module=user&task=main

I’ve enabled url rewriting and setup the htaccess file which is all working correctly, how would I create a rewrite rule that allows me to access the component above by simply doing:

/portal/ = ?option=com_tmportal

or

/portal/user = ?option=com_tmportal&module=user

or

/portal/user/main = ?option=com_tmportal&module=user&task=main

Thanks for any help, much appreciated 🙂

Answer 1

You haven’t specified Joomla version so I’m assuming 1.6/7/2.5 in my answer.

Short Answer: If you’re using Joomla!’s default .htaccess then all you have to do is create a Joomla! menu to each of your components views with the right alias eg. portal for your default component access ie. ?option=com_tmportal.

This is what the default .htaccess does it passes all of the elements after the base URL to index.php to help select the component and view.

Longer Answer
When you create a component for Joomla! you specify the menu settings for each view using an XML file usual the same name as the view file in it’s view/tmpl/ directory.

Typically the url to a specific view & task in a component would look like these:

?option=com_mycomponent
?option=com_mycomponent&view=userdetails
?option=com_mycomponent&view=userdetails&task=main

Joomla!’s framework will automatically use the view & task params to get your components correct controller and view (or sub-view). I’m not sure that it does anything with the module param that you have in your URL’s so I’d guess you’re trapping and processing that yourself.