Ajax crawl-able URLs with Laravel (shebang, #!)

posted 11 years ago

Hi,

I am trying to adapt my web application to be able to use #! in the url so that I can use that to direct web crawlers to html snapshots of my dynamic pages.

What I want to do is add #! as a prefix to a group of routes, but Laravel does not seem to recognize this.

I want the url to look like: http://domain.com/#!/series/1/1

Example:

Route::group(['prefix' => '#!'], function () {
  Route::get('series', 'SeriesController@show');
  .
  .
  . 
}

Has anyone tried this before? Gotten it to work this way? Or another way?

Second question: Would it be better for the URL to look like this? http://domain.com/series/#!/1/1

Love to get your feedback!

EDIT: A prefix of just '!' works just fine, but when I add the '#' it treats the rest of the url as a comment it seems. I have tried url encoding the # to &23 in the prefix array to no avail either.

This works:

Route::group(['prefix' => '!'], function () {

Thanks, Michael

GameWisp

Last updated 2 years ago.

citricsquid

replied 11 years ago

The part of a URL starting with # is called the fragment, the fragment is not sent to the server when a request is made by your browser, it is only available clientside. If you visit example.com/page#fragment the server will only see example.com/page as the request.

Last updated 2 years ago.

zenry

replied 11 years ago

this should be your only route

Route::get('series', 'SeriesController@show');

inside method show you should check it's an ajax call or not and return json or html

also check if google is trying to get it with _escaped_fragment_

source: https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/docs/getting-started

Last updated 2 years ago.

mandersondesign

replied 11 years ago

Thanks guys for the insight. I was definitely thinking about it all wrong, so this really helped clarify things.

Last updated 2 years ago.

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