Custom permalinks

[hnaseri (Hosein Naseri)]

There is a permalink tab under customize section in admin panel. I don’t know what does it exactly do. Can someone please explain it to me with a picture from that area? Because I have my discourse in Persian, and Persian translation of different fields in this section doesn’t make sense to me.

[techAPJ (Arpit Jalan)]

See:

What do Permalinks under Customize do?

They are mostly used for people who migrate from other forum software. The idea of a permalink is you can create a link on discourse that will resolve to a particular topic or category. Your link could be /hello-world instead of /t/12345/hello-world.

and

Redirect old forum URLs to new Discourse URLs

Redirecting Old Forum URLs to New Discourse URLs If you’ve moved from other forum software to Discourse using one of our import scripts, then you probably want all your hard-earned Google search results to continue pointing to the same content. Discourse has a built-in way to handle this for you as an alternative to writing nginx rules, using the permalinks lookup table. The permalinks table allows you to set two things: a url to match, and what that url should show. There are a few options …

[hnaseri (Hosein Naseri)]

thanks.
How can I programmatically create these permalinks? php code is preferred for me. is it possible?

I want to use discourse as a q&a platform in my educational app. My app has a structure like this:
course/chapter/lesson
So I want the users to be able to create new topics like this:
course/chapter/lesson/topic-1
course/chapter/lesson/topic-2
etc…
since this structure isn’t supported by discourse, I want to use this customized permalinks as a redirection tool to created topics. Is it a good idea?

[fefrei (Felix Freiberger)]

You can use the API to create these. Create a permalink while the Network tab of your browser’s development tools is open to see how it works. You can find more details here:

Reverse engineer the Discourse API

Discourse is backed by a complete JSON api. Anything you can do on the site you can also do using the JSON api. Many of the endpoints are properly documented in the discourse_api gem, however some endpoints lack documentation. To determine how to do something with the JSON API here are some steps you can follow. Example: recategorize a topic. Go to a topic and start editing a category: [image] Open Chrome dev tools, switch to the Network tab, select XHR filter: [image] Perform the op…

[neil (Neil Lalonde)]

@hnaseri

How can I programmatically create these permalinks?

There’s a post in the linked topic with an example:

https://meta.discourse.org/t/redirecting-old-forum-urls-to-new-discourse-urls/20930/16?u=neil

Permalink.create(url: '/discussion/12345', topic_id: 987)

[riking (Kane York)]

#faq-material for this should be developed as part of Feature interest survey: "go" permalinks