By Frederick Gimino on Thursday, 21 November 2013
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Hi I am experiencing several issue with easyblog.

1..) Lets say I have article with a title of " black cats" located in the "cats" category with a url that looks like:
http://example.com/easyblog/entry/cats/black-cats.html
but can also be accesed by typing:
http://example.com/easyblog/entry/XXXX/black-cats.html
Where X is any category in easyblog.

Could you provide me with a conditional statement that would prevent this? My initial thought was to use the canonical url and the base url as a conditional statement like:

if $canonical != $base
{
header("HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found");
}

Could you do this for me with the correct variables and tell me which file to place it in and where?

2.) Upgraded to the latest release of easyblog and noticed maps, editing user profile, backend admin, and ratings are all having issues. Do you have any ideas about what issues I may be experiencing and how I can address them?

3.) I would like to upgrade toJommla 3.2 is easyblog ready for 3.2 yet? I am currently using 3.16.

Thanks
Hello Frederick,

Kindly please find the answers to your inquiries below:


1..) Lets say I have article with a title of " black cats" located in the "cats" category with a url that looks like:
http://example.com/easyblog/entry/cats/black-cats.html
but can also be accesed by typing:
http://example.com/easyblog/entry/XXXX/black-cats.html
Where X is any category in easyblog.

Could you provide me with a conditional statement that would prevent this? My initial thought was to use the canonical url and the base url as a conditional statement like:

if $canonical != $base
{
header("HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found");
}

Could you do this for me with the correct variables and tell me which file to place it in and where?


Hm, not too sure if I really get you here but in EasyBlog there's already a canonical url added into the head of the page. Am I missing anything here?


2.) Upgraded to the latest release of easyblog and noticed maps, editing user profile, backend admin, and ratings are all having issues. Do you have any ideas about what issues I may be experiencing and how I can address them?

What issues are you having with them? Can you please provide us with the back end and FTP access to the site?


3.) I would like to upgrade toJommla 3.2 is easyblog ready for 3.2 yet? I am currently using 3.16.

Yes, the latest version of EasyBlog supports Joomla 3.2
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Thursday, 21 November 2013 13:34
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Just do not understand why their cannot be a one to one ratio between blog post and parent category. Why must a blog post be able to be accessed even if the category is a mismatch? I understand canonical will display correct data but the "wildcard" category structure just seems like bad form to me.
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Monday, 16 December 2013 22:44
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Hello Frederick,

It's actually because we allow admin's to customize the behavior of the urls. We could enforce a check but it's going to be heavy especially when there is nested categories. For example, if you have a hierarchy of the following:

Main category
|
|_ _ _ Category A
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|_ _ _ Category B
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|_ _ _ Category C
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|_ _ _ Category D

Now, if the blog post is posted in category D, there are so many possibilities of it's parent category being able to be used in the url structure.
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Monday, 16 December 2013 23:50
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