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00:09 so in this video we're going to be
00:10 looking at how to use the import
00:12 functionality within traffic control
00:15 so here inside the traffic control stack
00:17 i've set up a route
00:19 for import here i have test import
00:23 and when you choose import you can
00:25 supply a destination now this
00:28 destination should not be a url it needs
00:31 to be the path
00:33 to the page that you want to import
00:36 so here i have just import.php
00:40 so if we go to the import page inside
00:42 this demo file and let's look at the
00:44 path we'll notice that the folder is
00:46 slash and it's import.php
00:49 now for example if i were going to do
00:52 you know
00:53 import and then
00:56 index.php
00:58 okay let's say my folder and name of
01:00 that would be this
01:02 inside my route um the import would need
01:05 to be updated so that was actually
01:07 import slash index.php
01:11 okay so this needs to be the actual path
01:14 from the top of your website
01:17 to the actual file that you want to
01:19 import
01:22 so let's see what actually import does
01:25 for us so here i've published the actual
01:29 project file for traffic control and if
01:32 we let's go ahead and test one of those
01:33 routes let's test that
01:35 test dash
01:37 import
01:38 route now when i hit enter here what
01:41 we'll notice is it actually takes us to
01:44 the import page
01:46 but if we look at the url it didn't
01:48 redirect us
01:49 it imported the page so the route is now
01:52 my url
01:55 okay but the page that is imported was
01:58 from a completely different url
02:00 remember the original name of this file
02:02 was import.php
02:05 and if we look this is the page that's
02:07 getting imported so this is a way of
02:09 kind of changing and updating your your
02:12 urls either temporarily um this is
02:15 probably a great example of a way of
02:18 doing a temporary sale url that you want
02:21 to expire at a certain point in time but
02:24 you don't want to use a redirect
02:26 right the import functionality really
02:28 helps you out with that
02:30 now one caveat with importing of routes
02:35 is there are times where when you import
02:37 a page
02:38 some of the related assets to that
02:41 particular page might not get loaded
02:45 so for example um if you have you know
02:48 some javascript files or css files and
02:50 you notice that those aren't getting
02:52 imported properly when the page gets
02:54 imported
02:55 there is a fix um and there is a fix
02:58 within the seo helper stack
03:00 so our seo helper stack has a meta tag
03:03 called base url
03:05 and all you need to do is if you add
03:06 that to the page that will resolve
03:09 issues with
03:11 javascript and css and potentially other
03:14 assets not getting loaded when the page
03:16 is imported
03:19 now there could be other conflicts
03:21 if you have other php related stacks on
03:24 this page
03:26 there could be issues importing those
03:28 so for example let's say you have a feed
03:31 stack or or something like that on the
03:33 page that you want to import
03:35 um there could be some conflicts between
03:37 that um
03:39 you know it couldn't maybe load
03:40 particular css or php libraries and
03:43 things of that nature so the import
03:46 ability um while it's amazing there
03:49 could be some conflicts with php
03:50 libraries and the conflicts with
03:54 um
03:54 css and javascript not being loaded um
03:57 there is a workaround using seo helper
04:00 with this base url meta tag
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