[TYPO3] RealURL Tweak Question...

[Timothy Patterson]

The problem that I had initially ran into with relying on the sitemap to 
generate my URLs is that Not in Menu pages and pages with a special type 
would not always get their URLs properly.  With some cleaver TS I was 
able to get around that issue.

Would it be possible to maybe utilize PHP's Curl library somewhere in 
the backend code to automatically visit a link-generating sitemap page? 
  This would eliminate my need for a CRON task for visiting the sitemap 
and "emulate" an end-user.  It would be even better if instead of a 
sitemap there was a function in the FE code base that could be called 
specifically for the URL generation purpose from the Curl code - 
eliminating the need for a sitemap altogether.

I cannot rely on my end-users to visit the sitemap on their own after 
creating pages, etc., thus my quest for some sort of automated method.

Dmitry Dulepov [typo3] wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Jan Bednarik wrote:
>> this is not possible because URLs (both RealUrl and CoolUri) are 
>> generated using typolink function. There's no way to get a touch on 
>> this function in the BE as it's part of the tslib_content class, which 
>> is a FE class depending of tslib_fe. It's clear that you can't get FE 
>> class instance in BE.
> 
> Good addition!
> 
> To extend a bit further: it is possible to simulate FE environment in BE 
> exactly for the purpose of link generation but since it is only a 
> simulation, result cannot be guarantied. There are too many things in FE 
> to take into account. Not worth it. Much easier to create a sitemap and 
> navigate to it. This will fill caches with URLs.
>