MSM Support

[zgordon]

Hey man, LOVE this extension and having such flexible control over url segments. However, I'm using it on a MSM site and the routes apply to ALL the sites. Would there be a way to make it work so it has different settings for different sites?

Thanks!

[averyvery]

Oh MSM, you make everything so complicated...

This seems like it would be pretty easy to do. At the moment, I'm not actively working on Freeway, but I'll put this in the queue.

[qbmarketing]

Is it possible to add the domain to the routes to make it specific one site to another?

[qbmarketing]

It appears this DOES work, based on my test.

[qbmarketing]

Wait - spoke too soon. It seemed to work at first, but perhaps my page was cached.

[averyvery]

Think this is covered in the original issue. Sorry, not doing much work on Freeway at the moment — glad to know there's still some issue in the idea, though. Integrating with a specific site from MSM is an interesting problem, and I'll make sure it's on the list if/when I get back to working on Freeway some more.

[qbmarketing]

I actually have it working pretty well the way I want it, but I do see that any path I define in freeway impacts the other site within the MSM installation, so I may not be able to go this route. What would the time it would take you to make it specifically MSM compatible cost? Just curious.

[averyvery]

That's an interesting question. I don't think that per-site specifications would be particularly hard, but there's a a lot of Freeway functionality that wouldn't be hard but that I'm not keen on writing, testing (ugh), and working with the various "I installed Solspace Tags and now it broke" issues on. I'm curious: are either of you (Zac, QB) actually finding Freeway useful in a single-site context? Have you accomplished the things you wanted with it, outside of the MSM issue? Have you done things with Freeway that you can't do through other methods (embedding templates with conditionals, using Freebie, etc)?

MSM and EE both cost money, they're both a pain to install/upgrade, and neither come with tests that I can run alongside Freeway to verify that I'm not breaking some obscure functionality. I'm really hoping that, if Ellis Labs actually thinks routing is a valuable product feature, they work on integrating it directly with the product. At one point I believed that Ellis was working on a feature like this, but their privacy and slow release schedule make it difficult to know if this is true or not.

At the moment, keeping Freeway simple is my defense against dealing with the mountain of compatibility issues and quirky config options that the EE environment introduces, so unless I get a good sense that additional complexity provides value, I'm probably not going to make things more complex.

[qbmarketing]

I've not yet used it in a single site environment. I suspect there the issue would in fact be much simpler. It just so happens that my first need for template group name and template name "aliasing" reared its ugly head with an MSM site. So throwing domain.com at the front of a path in Freeway won't work? It's entirely relative?

[averyvery]

At the moment, Freeway parses the URI for information, and the URI is unrelated to the actual URL (domain included).

To introduce sites for all users, I would need to add and work from a new syntax, something like:

default_site {
  journals => blogs/
  journals/{{user}} => blogs/users/{{user}}
  product/{{product_id}}/{{action}} => catalog/product_lookup/id/{{product_id}}/{{action}}
}

french_site {
  novellas => 'news' 
}

Do you need Freeway to work on both sites? If not, you could probably modify the should_execute() method to include a quick site check (not sure how this would work off the top of my head; I don't have a copy of MSM and it doesn't seem to have documentation around how to get the site out with a var).

[averyvery]

Happy to announce that MSM support is coming up in the next release. You can check it out (along with some significant changes) here.

[zgordon]

Awesome man!!! That's great news :)

[rmdort]

This is great news Doug. I am using freeway on 3-live sites. Glad to know that it will be supporting MSM soon.