URL rewriting in my custom module

[Genie]

I am developting a custom module amd want to display a page of my module in fromtend. So i have created a file display.php and assigned the smarty variables with to a tpl file called display.tpl file. Now it is showing the view when the address bar url is http://localhost/modules/mymodule/display.php. But i want to rewrite the url suppose as http://localhost/modules/mymodule/display/ Which will show the same view as it is showing with http://localhost/modules/mymodule/display.php. Need help. Please tell me how to do this with .htaccess file or something else and how.

[El Patron]

I think you can do this from back office

 

back office-->preferences-->seo & urls

 

add a new page

[Genie]

Hello El Patron

I tried this what you told. But I can't find my-module's display page in the drop down list to be selected. another question is I don't want to do this with backend. I just want whenever my module is installed it will come with that url re-written feature. Is this possible?

[El Patron]

I think you might look at existing module (see the drop down in seo & urls) to see how those modules register their page name.  Then I think it might be possible to add (using module) the module page to the existing pages like AdminMeta&addmeta.

[vekia]

just create module front controller

<?php
class mymoduledisplayModuleFrontController extends ModuleFrontController
{
  public function initContent()
  {
    parent::initContent();
    $this->setTemplate('display.tpl');
  }
}

like it is described here http://doc.prestashop.com/display/PS15/Creating+a+PrestaShop+module#CreatingaPrestaShopmodule-Embeddingatemplateinthetheme

[misthero]

Hello El Patron

I tried this what you told. But I can't find my-module's display page in the drop down list to be selected. another question is I don't want to do this with backend. I just want whenever my module is installed it will come with that url re-written feature. Is this possible?

 

did you tried something like this?

$urlLink = new Link;
        
$myCleanUrl = $urlLink->getModuleLink('modulename', 'prettylink');

Edited July 16, 2014 by misthero (see edit history)

[vekia]

without controller this link will not work :-) but of course, it's correct way to create links

[misthero]

no controller no party, I supposed "display.php" was his controller but I'm obviously wrong