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Hi Lars!

You don't need to translate customized url. When your custom code is executed, DW processes customized URL to normal URL: http://yoursite/default.aspx?id=10&productid=NNN&variantid=MMM&langid=Lang1

So productid can be accessible by Request.QueryString["productid"]   // C# style :)

Best regards,
Vladimir

 Hi Vladimir,

Thanks, I'm aware of that, but I would like to go the other way around and take a URL, perhaps stored in a database or typed in manually, and resolve the clean product ID from that. Imagine I have a list of URLs like the following:

http://mysite.dk/Products/Lawnmowers/Lawnmower_XYZ.aspx

This URL contains three hidden values:

 - ID (Products)
 - GroupID (Lawnmowers)
 - ProductID (Lawnmover XYZ)

On my list I'd like to find the ProductID of the Lawnmower XYZ product in the same way Dynamicweb does it when trying to make sense out of a URL.

So I'm looking for a method in the API that does that or some pointers to how you did that in the core.

BR.
Lars

Hi Lars!
That example of how DW do this, altough slightly simplified...  You can run it in custom module, to see how it work
           URLParser p = new URLParser();
           string url = p.parseParameters("http://mysite.dk/Products/Lawnmowers/Lawnmower_XYZ.aspx");
I hope, this helps you...

Best regards,
Vladimir

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Hi Vladimir,

I wasn't able to make your example work, but based on your API references I was able to make an example that worked with my project.

Is there a provider for page URLs also?

Thanks:)

BR.
Lars

There is no provider for pages, but you can use PageURLHash instead:
        public int getPageID(string url)
        {
            int pageID = 0;
            Hashtable PageURLHash = (Hashtable)HttpContext.Current.Application.Item("PageURLHash");

            if (PageURLHash.ContainsKey(requestPath))
                pageID = (int)PageURLHash.Item(pagePart);
            else
            {
                string fullPath = url.Replace(".aspx", "");
                string modulePart = fullPath.Substring(url.LastIndexOf('/'));
                string pagePart = fullPath.Replace(modulePart, "");

                while (pagePart.Contains("/"))
                {
                    if (PageURLHash.ContainsKey(pagePart + ".aspx"))
                    {
                        pageID = (int)PageURLHash.Item(pagePart + ".aspx");
                    }
                    else
                        pagePart = pagePart.Replace(pagePart.Substring(pagePart.LastIndexOf('/')), "");
                }
            }

            return pageID;
        }

Best regards,
Vladimir

 Excellent, thanks:)