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Creating SEF urls in Prado is very simple once you know how to do it. The documentation is horrible because it's going to assume you already know Prado. This simple guide will hopefully fill in the gaps. You can refer to the documentation for more information and more examples of url mapping with regular expressions. http://www.pradosoft.com/demos/quickstart/?page=Configurations.UrlMapping

The type of urls this guide creates (no index.php)...

http://www.mysite.com/my-home-page
http://www.mysite.com/product/35

1. Add .htaccess
2. Modify Application.xml
3. Use constructUrl to build urls

1. Add the following code to your .htaccess file. This will allow for the removal of index.php.

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]

2. Add the following to the modules section of protected/application.xml

Some explaination of EnableCustomUrl="true" and UrlPrefix="/"...
EnableCustomUrl="true"
This means let Prado use your url map in the urls that get automatically generated by constructUrl.
UrlPrefix="/"
This removes index.php. If you installed your prado app in a subdirectory you'll want to change this to UrlPrefix="/mysubdirectory" replace "mysubdirectory" with your installation subdirectory.

3. Use $this->Service->constructUrl() in your links.

Example:

   My Product Link

if you have followed the steps above the constructUrl outputs...

   My Product Link