Search engine friendly url in JomSocial

Some of you have been asking about how the sef support would look like. Let me quickly answer that.

Firstly, although we do plan to support as many sef component as time permit, I can only promise support for Joomla 1.5 built-in sef system. They work fine and require almost no additional work on your end. Maintaining support for various sef component out there is not a trivial work.

Out of the box, we will support 2 url structure. Lets assume Jane has a userid of '100'. 

The first url format is called, feature-based url. This url style is simpler and is slightly faster to decode. It will look like this:

http://yourdomain.com/community/profile.html?userid=100
http://yourdomain.com/community/photos.html?userid=100

The second, more exciting style is what we called, user-based url. The whole objective of this style is to allow highy personalized url for each of your site members. This url style will cost each page one ot two extra db query.  It will look like this.

http://yourdomain.com/community/jane.html
http://yourdomain.com/community/jane/photos.html

You can easily select which style you prefer from the backend.

Also notice the need for /community/ alias. This is just the alias used by Joomla to identify what component they shall load. You can easily change this to anything you like.

Would that make you guys happy ? :)