Blog module: remove date from url in posts

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• admin

  August 2015 edited 4:25PM

  You can access a blog post also at blog/id/{id}, however, the generated URL is built into the module with the blog_post_model::get_url method (around line 608 in the fuel/modules/blog/models/blog_posts_model.php file). So to change it, you would need to change that method.
• serdieguez

  August 2015 edited 4:25PM

  Thanks!
  
  I changed this line $url = $year.'/'.$month.'/'.$day.'/'.$this->slug;
  
  to this $url = $this->slug;
  
  Now, posts have the desired href: http://www.mywebsite.com/blog/my-post but now, when i click on one of the post, it don't show the clicked post but the same page with all posts.
  
  
• admin

  August 2015 edited 4:25PM

  You will probably need to change the main fuel/modules/blog/controller/blog.php file since it looks for those URI parameters to query the database for the post.
• suneth

  March 2016 edited 4:25PM

  how to change blog.php can u give me code for that.
• developer_rg

  July 2018 edited July 2018

  Well, I have figured this out and wanted to help you guys.

  You need to do little change on two files:

  1) In fuel/modules/blog/models/blog_posts_model.php
  Find the get_url method and change
  $url = $year.'/'.$month.'/'.$day.'/'.$this->slug;
  to
  $url = $this->slug;

  2) Now, open fuel/modules/blog/controller/blog.php
  near line no. 20 just add this below code after $view_by = 'page';

  // custom code for getting blog post by slug ( without date )

  if ($this->fuel->blog->uri_segment(2) && $this->fuel->blog->uri_segment(3)=="")
  {
  $view_by = 'slug';
  $slug = $this->fuel->blog->uri_segment(2);
  if ($view_by == 'slug')
  {
  return $this->post($slug, $year, $month, $day);
  }
  }
  //end of custom code for getting blog post by slug ( without date )

  That's it.

  It took time for to figure this out but finally i did it.

  I hope this will be helpful.
  Thanks!