Redirect from URL containing member_id to username

Question

Just wondering if there is a way to redirect vistors from a URL that contains member ids to a url that contains the username.

I originally had member pages set up like so... members/profile/{member_id}/ for a range of profile pages. I have since changed this to members/profile/{username}/ and I was wondering if there is a way to redirect a visors to the new URL if they were to attempt to visit a url with a member id still in it.

I tried

{if segment_3 != username}
  {redirect="members/profile/{username}/"}
{/if}

and

{if segment_3 == member_id}
  {redirect="members/profile/{username}/"}
{/if}

but neither has an effect. (The 'profile' pages are running within Switchee, so I'm not sure if thats having an effect at all?)

Answer 1

Shorn I have tested this and it works great. However because of the way the {redirect} variable works you cant use {username} in the redirect variable because it will blow up the URL so I have accomplished what you are needing with a little bit of php:

1.) In the CPanel go to Design>Template Preferences and click on the desired template group and template you are needing this functionality on on the top left of the screen. Then allow PHP yes, and let the PHP parse on the input stage.

2.) Add this code to your template.

<?php
    $uname = ee()->session->userdata('username');
?>
{if username != "{segment_3}"}
    {redirect='members/profile/<?php echo $uname; ?>'}
{/if}

Answer 2

Hmm, that seems like it should work. Have you tried either of the following?

{if '{segment_3}' == '{member_id}'}
   {redirect="members/profile/{username}/"}
{/if}

or

{if '{segment_3}' == '{logged_in_member_id}'}
   {redirect="members/profile/{logged_in_username}/"}
{/if}

Answer 3

If you're using switchee, it might just be a matter of setting up a case specifically to check for member ID's, rather than using an if-check.

Member IDs are only numberic, where usernames have regular letters (and generally not numbers)

Try something along these lines:

{exp:switchee variable="{segment_3}" parse="inward"}
{case value="#^\d{1,99}$#"}
  {exp:member:custom_profile_data member_id="{segment_3}"}
  {redirect="members/profile/{username}/"}
  {/exp:member:custom_profile_data}
{/case}

{case value="" default="Yes"}
  Your regular template goes here.
{/case}
{/exp:switchee}

You're going to want to check my case value's regex - that's meant to check that the value is a number (and only a number).