Presumably there was a specific reason for the full non-sef url being presented @chrisdavenport

Generating front-end SEF URLs for display in the admin involves some trickery. You can't use JRoute::_() to do it because of the coupling to JFactory::getApplication(). This method will do the trick if you really wanted to show SEF URLs:

/**
 * Replacement for JRoute::_() for routing from Joomla's backend
 *
 * @param   string  $url  The URL to process
 *
 * @return  string  The routed URL
 */
public static function getFrontendRoute($url)
{
    // Get the router.
    $router = JApplicationCms::getInstance('site')->getRouter();

    // Make sure that we have our router
    if (!$router)
    {
        return null;
    }

    if ((strpos($url, '&') !== 0) && (strpos($url, 'index.php') !== 0))
    {
        return $url;
    }

    // Build route.
    $uri = $router->build($url);
    $url = $uri->toString(['path', 'query', 'fragment']);

    // Replace spaces.
    $url = preg_replace('/\s/u', '%20', $url);

    // Replace '/administrator'
    $url = str_replace('/administrator', '', $url);

    $url = htmlspecialchars($url);

    return $url;
}

@mbabker yeah i notice that.

Could the php 5.3 version of that method be in https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/blob/staging/libraries/cms/router/administrator.php?

Presumably there was a specific reason for the full non-sef url being presented @chrisdavenport

Both SEF and non-SEF URLs would be useful during debugging. Since this component originates from something that was originally written for Joomla 1.5, I suspect that the non-SEF link was shown mainly because the SEF link was hard to reliably generate.

@andrepereiradasilva While you're messing with this component, there is a small issue that I noticed a while back that you can probably fix at the same time:

If you use Search Tools to make some selection which results in an empty list, you will see this message: "No content has been indexed. Start the indexer by pressing the Index button in the toolbar." which is actually wrong in that context.

Could the php 5.3 version of that method be in https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/blob/staging/libraries/cms/router/administrator.php?

I'd throw it in JRoute instead of JRouterAdministrator personally. I'd also battle test it a bit harder than I did with my hack (if you ever get a frontend path with /administrator in it that'll get string replaced and it doesn't cope with the HTTP(S) detection like JRoute::_() does. Otherwise, it's GPL code ripped off from a GPL project, do as you please ????

@chrisdavenport, i solved that now. this is how it looks after the latest commit

Without index

With index

@mbabker thanks, i will check that later

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