Howto : Get your pages downloads URL without SEF - Solution

[rikoooo]

Hi,

Migrating from jdownloads 1.9 to jdownloads 2.5 or 3.2 will cause to enable SEF URL by default in the component. Before in jdownloads 1.9 you could disable SEF URL in title, which was perfect !

If like me you wish to keep your URL style like before : http://www.exemple.com/downloads/viewdownload/54/480 then follow my little hack :

Open /components/com_jdownloads/router.php

IN THE IF STATEMENT :

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if ($view == 'download')
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$segments[] = $query['catid'];
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$segments[] = (int)$query['catid'];

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$segments[] = $query['id'];
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$segments[] = (int)$query['id'];

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$segments[] = $view;
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$segments[] = 'viewdownload';

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case 'download'
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case 'viewdownload'

That's it, now your URLs look like this : http://www.exemple.com/downloads/viewdownload/54/480

After migrating you also notified that your files id and categories id have changed like explained here http://www.jdownloads.com/forum/index.php?topic=8165.0  
I will also post a Howto which fix this problem with an SQL request that perfectly works !

Best regards,

Erik