Changing site_url on the fly

Question

We're revamping a site that has a url structure of http://mysite.com/partner_name. When that first segment matches a partner name, their current custom site changes all urls and logo.

In our case on EE we're using freebie and switchee. We add each partner name (they're not too many) as freebie segments, and add them to a comparison case with switchee. That works great for the first page, but all links are still mysite.com/my_url, when ideally they'd be mysite.com/partner_name/my_url.

Is there any way we can do the comparison with switchee, and save mysite.com/freebie_1 as {site_url} when there's a match? Do we need php on the template?

Thanks in advance!

Best,

Santiago

Answer 1

I've seen multi-language site implementations that deal with similar issues since you essentially want something like this:

http://mysite.com/en/
http://mysite.com/fr/

And depending on the URL, you want {site_url} to return the language code segment as well as the domain (http://mysite.com/en/).

Here's a pretty good write-up of how to accomplish this:

http://cwcrawley.co.uk/2010/01/multi-lingual-websites-in-expressionengine/

Essentially, you create separate directories for the first segment with copies of your index.php files in them.

/en
  /index.php
/fr
  /index.php

Then you modify each index.php file change the site_url global variables.

$assign_to_config['site_url'] = 'http://mysite.com/fr';

Here's a nice slide presentation on the same technique: Multi-Language Websites in ExpressionEngine

Also, if you are using something like Focus Lab's Master Config, or EE-Garage's Config Boostrap, you can possibly override the {site_url} with some PHP conditionals. I haven't tried this technique before personally.

Here's a similar question about doing this: Set “site_url” Config Variable in index.php

Answer 2

Try this:

$this->EE =& get_instance();

$this->EE->confi->config['site_url'] = "New Site URL";