Need help with rewrite rule for date in URL

Nuke Cadet Joined: Aug 01, 2003 Posts: 3

I'm having trouble writing a rewrite rule and header.php entry for a calendar module. It uses the date at the end of the url to pull the listing for that date when clicked on. Can someone look at the url below and give me an idea of what I need in htaccess and header.php to get this to work?

Code:

modules.php?name=My_Calendar&file=index&type=day&Date=11/01/2003

Thanks.

Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 8:29 am

I'm having no luck with this either. I was trying to tap the events calendar. The date thing is really anoying. Anyone have any ideas??

Nuke Cadet Joined: Aug 01, 2003 Posts: 3

Any help would be really appreciated. All my other modules are working fine. Just can't figure this one out.

Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2003 3:14 pm

Code:

"'(?<!/)modules.php\?name=My_Calendar&file=index&type=day&Date=([1-9/]*)'"

Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2003 4:24 pm

surely not that easy?

Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2003 4:25 pm

it little of easy, but i getting more experience of it.

Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2003 4:28 pm

only having the one / will recreate the two of them and the 6 numbers??

Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2003 4:40 pm

did you try it on header.php?

Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2003 8:03 pm

Badger, that should work with no problems, though it is recommended you escape the character (make it looks like ([1-9\/]*), I am not sure how the date goes, but if it does not contain hyphens or underscores this will work perfectly, you could also make it ([0-9\/]*) which will allow zero's to be used as well. There is no need for additional /'s in this because the star * delimeter is being used, that says it will do any number 0-9 and /'s for zero instances and above. The star * delimeter is for zero and above, + is for one and above { } with a number inside is an exact number of instances, and a { , } with a number on each side of the comma specifies the minimum and maximum range of instances to be used. The only delimeter I normally use for GT is the *, however more advanced regex expressions may require the others be used, such as the preg_replace statement inside of the footer.php on GT-NExtGEn, this regex is a good example of using ranges and stars.

-Bill

Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2003 12:48 am

I was trying at one point to tap the Event Calendar
(holbrookau.net one) and the date format was as above ie: &Date=28/11/03, but in that module there is another variable after the date passesd s well. At the moment I'm really in a guddle with my site due to the betaNC bundle being knackered, but I'm patching and modding up a new 6.9 whenever I get time, so I might stay out of this for now!!

Badger