Navigation Section/Breadcrumb

[[chrisB]]

Is it possible to edit the navigation section/breadcrumb to remove the index.php part?

Editing the QueryString.php to remove the 'index.php' causes issues with the css/images loading, but I have a menu editor mod whereby I can link to 'mydomain.com/' however, the breadcrumb will always show 'mydomain.com/index.php'. I know this is very minor but if I can't remove it - the next best method would be to hide its use.

It's just a personal preference.

[Sir Osis of Liver]

Are you referring to the linktree or browser tab?

[Kindred]

in short... NO.

DO NOT attempt to remove the index.php from the URL. You will cause all sorts of errors.
The system was designed to have it present -- and all attempts that people have tried to remove it ALWAYS result in difficulties.

You can use something like PrettyURLs, but do not change the code in the Source files.

[[chrisB]]

Are you referring to the linktree or browser tab?

It could be the linktree, I'm not sure what SMF refers to it as but when I used the inspect tool it shown it as 'navigation section' - basically the bar underneath the main menu.

Forum > Boards > ETC

in short... NO.

DO NOT attempt to remove the index.php from the URL. You will cause all sorts of errors.
The system was designed to have it present -- and all attempts that people have tried to remove it ALWAYS result in difficulties.

You can use something like PrettyURLs, but do not change the code in the Source files.

At the moment I am using PrettyURLs and a menu editor.

I'm going to re-add the 'index.php' to the QueryString.php file but I was hoping there would be some way of safely masking the index.php from being shown at all.

-Edit-

Yes it is the treelink, I have found the code for it inside index.template.php file.

[Illori]

if you remove any code related to this at some point you WILL break your forum. please take our advice and dont do this.

[TwitchisMental]

Could be wrong here, but couldn't this be done with CSS?

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.navigate_section ul li a:first-child {
  display: none;
}

[[chrisB]]

if you remove any code related to this at some point you WILL break your forum. please take our advice and dont do this.

Rodger that, I have changed the URL to my sites logo (that should be fine).

Also, if someone does stumble on index.php - I have set it to redirect via my htaccess file.

Could be wrong here, but couldn't this be done with CSS?

Code Select Expand

.navigate_section ul li a:first-child {
  display: none;
}

Thanks, I don't want to hide the whole thing but its useful to know.

Could the 'site' part of the navigate section be hidden with css? https://poetryartonline.com/index.php?cat=2

[TwitchisMental]

if you remove any code related to this at some point you WILL break your forum. please take our advice and dont do this.

Rodger that, I have changed the URL to my sites logo (that should be fine).

Also, if someone does stumble on index.php - I have set it to redirect via my htaccess file.

Could be wrong here, but couldn't this be done with CSS?

Code Select Expand

.navigate_section ul li a:first-child {
  display: none;
}

Thanks, I don't want to hide the whole thing but its useful to know.

Could the 'site' part of the navigate section be hidden with css? https://poetryartonline.com/index.php?cat=2

The code I mentioned would just remove the first link. Although on the main page I guess it would hide the whole thing unless you made another tweak or two.

Not sure if you could remove just that specific part from the breadcrumb with just css though.

[Kindred]

Removing the index.php in the url uding htaccess will also break things unless you are using the full pretty URLs system

[[chrisB]]

Removing the index.php in the url uding htaccess will also break things unless you are using the full pretty URLs system

I have the Pretty URLs Pro mod, nothing seems broken by using this setup so far.

I appreciate the help and advice. 👍🏻

[Sir Osis of Liver]

I'm still not getting this.  index.php is not normally displayed in linktree.  Screenshot?

[Illori]

I'm still not getting this.  index.php is not normally displayed in linktree.  Screenshot?

yes it is, all the links have index.php in them

[Sir Osis of Liver]

Are we talking about the browser nav bar?  Why would anyone want to change that?

[Kindred]

No, he's talking about the URLs in the linktree...   URLs that no one ever actually looks at since they are "behind" the words of the linktree

Some people actively try to break their forum for some imaginary benefit...  ad while it shouldn't break anything changing those, it's basicslly useless work that could make upgrading harder

[Sir Osis of Liver]

But.... You only see the url at bottom of browser when you mouseover link, and in top nav bar when you click on it.  IIRC, there was another issue with index.php in earlier version (2.0?) that was fixable, but can't remember what it was.

[[chrisB]]

Some people actively try to break their forum for some imaginary benefit...  ad while it shouldn't break anything changing those, it's basicslly useless work that could make upgrading harder

It's more for consistency for me.

Most modern scripts no longer have index.php in their urls - I don't wish to sound disrespect towards SMF as it's a good solution for community building. In the future, I suppose FURLs will come to SMF as default.

mydomain.com
mydomain.com/forum/

Is my preferred preference.

It's worth noting that it could break things or, make upgrading harder down the line. I personally don't see what the few changes I have done could cause any problems. If the linktree can't safely be changed, I'm not overly bothered. Yet I will ask, then reflect on what's said or achievable.