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The Joomla! Router can be modified with additional rules by using the attatchXRules methods.  Ideally, this can be done from a system plugin so these rules can affect be used by others.
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2 possibilities when adding rules would be that you want to augment the router functionality, or you want to replace it.
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==JRouter Hacking==
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The Joomla! Router can be modified with additional rules by using the attatchXRules methods.  Ideally, this can be done from a system plugin so these rules will apply globally.
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Here are 2 examples of hacking JRouter using rules and a System Plugin.  One will augment the results returned by JRouter while the other will completely replace the results returned by JRouter
  
 
==Augmentation==
 
==Augmentation==
class plgSystemMyRouterAugmentor extends JPlugin {
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JRouter returns an array of variables which are then used through the API by JInput to override the actual _GET/_POST/_REQUEST variables.  If you merely want to augment the variables being returned, then this is straightforward.
  
     public function onAfterInitialize()
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<source lang="php">
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  class plgSystemMyRouterAugmentor extends JPlugin {
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     public function onAfterInitialise()
 
     {
 
     {
      global $app;
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    $app = JFactory::getApplication();
    // should we  use $app = JFactory::getApplication('site'); ?
 
 
 
 
     // get the router
 
     // get the router
 
     $router = $app->getRouter();
 
     $router = $app->getRouter();
 
 
     // add my own rules
 
     // add my own rules
 
     // create a callback array to call the augmentRoute method of this object
 
     // create a callback array to call the augmentRoute method of this object
     $augmentCallback = array($this, 'augmentRoute ');
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     $augmentCallback = array($this, 'augmentRoute');
 
     // attach the callback to the router
 
     // attach the callback to the router
 
     $router->attachBuildRule($myRouterCallback);
 
     $router->attachBuildRule($myRouterCallback);
 
 
     }
 
     }
/**
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    /**
 
     * @param  JRouterSite &$router  The Joomla Site Router
 
     * @param  JRouterSite &$router  The Joomla Site Router
 
     * @param  JURI  &$uri  The URI to parse
 
     * @param  JURI  &$uri  The URI to parse
 
     *
 
     *
 
     * @return  array  $vars The array of processed URI variables
 
     * @return  array  $vars The array of processed URI variables
*/
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    */
 
     public function augmentRoute ($router, $uri)
 
     public function augmentRoute ($router, $uri)
 
     {
 
     {
 
 
       $vars = array();
 
       $vars = array();
 
 
       // do something to the vars
 
       // do something to the vars
 
       $vars['augment'] = 'succeeded';
 
       $vars['augment'] = 'succeeded';
// in this case, now to any Joomla! component/module it will look like ?augment=succeeded was in the url
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      // in this case, now to any Joomla! component/module it will look like ?augment=succeeded was in the url
 
       return $vars;
 
       return $vars;
 
     }
 
     }
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  }
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</source>
  
}
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==Replacement==
  
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JRouter returns an array of variables which are then used through the API by JInput to override the actual _GET/_POST/_REQUEST variables.  If you want to completely replace these variables, this takes a bit more work.  In this case you may need to call the parse method in a sandbox to find out what would have been the results.  You can then add/delete/modify those results.  Finally, before returning those results to JRouter for the site itself, you need to flag JRouter so it doesn't continue to process the results.
  
==Replacement==
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{{JVer|2.5}}
define('ROUTER_MODE_SKIP_SEF', 2);
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<source lang="php">
define('ROUTER_MODE_SKIP_RAW', -1);
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  define('ROUTER_MODE_SKIP_SEF', 2);
class plgSystemMyRouterReplacor extends JPlugin {
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  define('ROUTER_MODE_SKIP_RAW', -1);
     public function onAfterInitialize()
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  class plgSystemMyRouterReplacor extends JPlugin {
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     public function onAfterInitialise()
 
     {
 
     {
       global $app;
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       $app = JFactory::getApplication();
      // should we  use $app = JFactory::getApplication('site'); ?
 
 
       // get the router
 
       // get the router
 
       $router = $app->getRouter();
 
       $router = $app->getRouter();
 
       // add my own rules
 
       // add my own rules
 
       // create a callback array to call the replaceRoute method of this object
 
       // create a callback array to call the replaceRoute method of this object
       $augmentCallback = array($this, 'replaceRoute ');
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       $augmentCallback = array($this, 'replaceRoute');
 
       // attach the callback to the router
 
       // attach the callback to the router
 
       $router->attachBuildRule($myRouterCallback);
 
       $router->attachBuildRule($myRouterCallback);
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       return $vars;
 
       return $vars;
 
     }
 
     }
}
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  }
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</source>
  
{{JVer|2.5}}
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[[Category:Tutorials]][[Category:Development]]
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[[Category:Module Development]]
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[[Category:Plugin Development]][[Category:Component Development]]

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JRouter Hacking[edit]

The Joomla! Router can be modified with additional rules by using the attatchXRules methods. Ideally, this can be done from a system plugin so these rules will apply globally.

Here are 2 examples of hacking JRouter using rules and a System Plugin. One will augment the results returned by JRouter while the other will completely replace the results returned by JRouter

Augmentation[edit]

JRouter returns an array of variables which are then used through the API by JInput to override the actual _GET/_POST/_REQUEST variables. If you merely want to augment the variables being returned, then this is straightforward.

Joomla 2.5

  class plgSystemMyRouterAugmentor extends JPlugin {
    public function onAfterInitialise()
    {
     $app = JFactory::getApplication();
    // get the router
    $router = $app->getRouter();
    // add my own rules
    // create a callback array to call the augmentRoute method of this object
    $augmentCallback = array($this, 'augmentRoute');
    // attach the callback to the router
    $router->attachBuildRule($myRouterCallback);
    }
    /**
     * @param   JRouterSite &$router  The Joomla Site Router
     * @param   JURI  &$uri  The URI to parse
     *
     * @return  array  $vars The array of processed URI variables
    */
    public function augmentRoute ($router, $uri)
    {
      $vars = array();
      // do something to the vars
      $vars['augment'] = 'succeeded';
      // in this case, now to any Joomla! component/module it will look like ?augment=succeeded was in the url
      return $vars;
    }
  }

Replacement[edit]

JRouter returns an array of variables which are then used through the API by JInput to override the actual _GET/_POST/_REQUEST variables. If you want to completely replace these variables, this takes a bit more work. In this case you may need to call the parse method in a sandbox to find out what would have been the results. You can then add/delete/modify those results. Finally, before returning those results to JRouter for the site itself, you need to flag JRouter so it doesn't continue to process the results.

Joomla 2.5

  define('ROUTER_MODE_SKIP_SEF', 2);
  define('ROUTER_MODE_SKIP_RAW', -1);
  class plgSystemMyRouterReplacor extends JPlugin {
    public function onAfterInitialise()
    {
       $app = JFactory::getApplication();
      // get the router
      $router = $app->getRouter();
      // add my own rules
      // create a callback array to call the replaceRoute method of this object
      $augmentCallback = array($this, 'replaceRoute');
      // attach the callback to the router
      $router->attachBuildRule($myRouterCallback);
    }
    /**
     * @param   JRouterSite &$router  The Joomla Site Router
     * @param   JURI  &$uri  The URI to parse
     *
     * @return  array  $vars The array of processed URI variables
     */
    public function replaceRoute ($router, $uri)
    {
      global $app;
      // should we  use $app = JFactory::getApplication('site'); ?
      $vars = array();
      // get the true router
      $siteRouter= $app->getRouter()
     // to avoid a recursion trap, we need to make sure that only
     // the site router can call us!  We could have removed our own
     // rule the myRouter...but that would only work 
     // inside our own method!  If someone else is also
     // doing the same thing, we would have an ugly little
     // recursion where they call parse which calls us
     // and then we clone router and call parse which calls them
     // back, and forth and back and forth
     // friends don't let friends use recursion!
     if (spl_object_hash($router) != spl_object_hash($siteRouter)) {
       // oh no!  Abort, abort!
       return $vars;
      }
      // we still want to clone the router passed to us, not the true router
      // since the rules might be different
      $myRouter = clone $router;    
      //now use the power of Joomla! to parse this uri!
      $vars = $myRouter->parse($vars);
      //what is the menu id?  what is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
      $menuId = ? isset($vars['itemId'])  $vars['itemId'] : 0;
      // Please be smarter than this.  Load the menu and check the config.  Do something
      if ($menuId == 67) {
        // change the option to be a different component.
        $vars['option'] == 'com_my_custom_component';
      } 
      // $vars has both the merged values of what would have been calculated and our changes 
      // So force the siteRouter to skip more processing - no reason to process it twice!
      //$router->setMode(JROUTER_MODE_RAW);
      // if the router mode is RAW - integer 0, then _parseRawRoute will be called by JRouter
      //$router->setMode(JROUTER_MODE_SEF);
      // if the router mode is SEF - integer 1, then _parseSEFRoute will be called by JRouter
      // if we set it to something which is NOT SEF or RAW, nothing is done to it
      // false or null would be a logical choice, 
      //but since the comparison is == not === false, null and 0/RAW are the same
      // therefore we defined our own constants.
      // SEF/RAW is a binary condition of either a positive integer or not a positive integer[0]
      // so we extend that so SKIP_SEF becomes 2 so the if clause will fail, but anything else
      // counting on checking for if mode > 0 will work
      // and SKIP_RAW is -1, so anything counting on checking mode <=0 will work
      // if it is not 0 or 1, then we don't change it because something else
      // already triggered the skip.
      $mode = $router-getMode();
      if ($mode == JROUTER_MODE_RAW) {
        $router->setMode(ROUTER_MODE_SKIP_RAW);
      }
      if ($mode == JROUTER_MODE_SEF) {
        $router->setMode(ROUTER_MODE_SKIP_SEF);
      }   
      // return our custom variables
      return $vars;
    }
  }