How to create a redirect module

[Sebastan12]

Hey dear PrestaShop developer Comunity..
so i have been tearing my hair out over a minor thing that i just can't seem to find any valuable information on.
Neiter in the dev.docs nor through google ( maby i do not know what I am searching for).

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So my goal is to write a module that does redirects in Prestashop 1.7.7.1 

I have URL 1 and I want the module to redirect to URL 2

For example:
myshop.com/specialBlogPage -> ( redirects to) -> myshop.com/blog/43-yes-verry-special

myshop.com/amazingbracelet -> (redirects to) -> myshop.com/brachelets/23-saphires-and-ruby-bracelet

I wanna make it modular in the backend ( manage redirects i made)

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If someone could help me  / point me to a usefull resource on how to do redirects in Prestashop 1.17.7.1 I would be forever thankfull ❤️ 

 

Edited March 30, 2021 by Sebastan12
Better clarification of the question (see edit history)

[Pedram]

Hmm, How are you creating these myshop.com/specialBlogPage  urls ?

if they are CMS pages, IIRC there should be some built-in feature in the Prestashop to redirect them to your custom URL.

 

But instead, if you are creating them using your module controller,  like the content of the page might change depend on the parameters value,

For example controller is "Blog",  and parameter is "Page" and value is "special" then it will open your special blog page.

Then you can add routes using "moduleRoutes" in your module for them.

First, Make a module or go to this link to generate a simple one : https://validator.prestashop.com/generator

Second, Add this Hook to the install section :

$this->registerHook('moduleRoutes')

Third, Add this section to your module code in same file (YourModuleName.php) as the install section above :

public function hookModuleRoutes($params){
      $my_routes = array(
		'YourRouteName1' => array(
              'controller' => 'NameOfController1',
              'rule' => 'blog/{id}-{name}/',
              'keywords' => array(
                  'id' => array('regexp' => '[\w]+', 'param' => 'id'),
                  'name' => array('regexp' => '[\w]+', 'param' => 'name'),
               ),
               'params' => array(
                   'fc' => 'module',
                   'module' => 'YourModuleName'
               )
           ),
		'YourRouteName2' => array(
              'controller' => 'NameOfController2',
              'rule' => 'branchelets/{id}-{name}',
              'keywords' => array(
                  'id' => array('regexp' => '[\w]+', 'param' => 'id'),
                  'name' => array('regexp' => '[\w]+', 'param' => 'name'),
               ),
               'params' => array(
                   'fc' => 'module',
                   'module' => 'YourModuleName'
               )
           )
		);
		
        return $my_routes;
    }

 

This will make it that instead of

MyShop.com/Modules/YourModuleName/?Controller=NameOfController1&id=43&name=Yes-very-special  (If friendly URL turned on)

Your page will show up as  myshop.com/blog/43-yes-verry-special

Same goes for the 2nd URL.

MyShop.com/Modules/YourModuleName/NameOfController2/id=23&name=saphires-and-ruby-bracelet  --> myshop.com/brachelets/23-saphires-and-ruby-bracelet

Edited April 1, 2021 by Pedram (see edit history)

[Sebastan12]

:3 thank you this helps me out a ton.

[Shapes]

Hello,

Since update to 1.7.8.4 this does not seems to work anymore, any idea why please?

[Shapes]

Apparently a PrestaShop bug: https://github.com/PrestaShop/PrestaShop/issues/27854

that just got a fix: https://github.com/PrestaShop/PrestaShop/pull/27874/files

Fix works fine on my side.

[Ain ul Haq]

You can use: 
1- Url Redirect Module https://addons.prestashop.com/en/url-redirects/27738-pretty-urls-url-redirects-manager-pack-of-2.html
2- Pretty URL module that also cleans the URLs https://addons.prestashop.com/en/url-redirects/21856-url-redirect-manage-301-302-303-redirects-404-urls.html