how to force rebuild of aliases [solved]

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drwagner13 Reply #1, 12 years, 1 month ago

I just upgraded form 2.0.x to 2.2. I have a lof of resources without aliases, and old links that used to get built replacing a missing alias with the id, now no longer work. I can see in the content table that the uris for many resources use this old format (which was great and should still work, dammit

/content/123/23/overview.html

I have hundreds of such uris that now don't work, and dozens of containers without aliases. Is there a way to get all the aliases created automatically at once. And can ew go back to the old url scheme, too?! [ed. note: drwagner13 last edited this post 12 years, 1 month ago.]

Revo 2.0.8-pl

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BobRay Reply #2, 12 years, 1 month ago

Here's a utility snippet that should create standard aliases for them, though any hard-coded links, links creates in code without using $modx->makeUrl(), or off-site links still won't work:

[[!FixAliases]]

Just create the snippet, put that tag on a page, a preview the page (just once). Then clear the cache and delete the snippet and page.

<?php
/* FixAliases snippet */
 
$resources = $modx->getCollection('modResource');
 
$count = 0;

foreach ($resources as $resource ) {
    $alias = $resource->get('alias');
    if (empty($alias) )  {
         $count++
         $pageTitle = $resource->get('pagetitle');
         $newAlias = $resource->cleanAlias($pageTitle);
         $resource->set('alias', $newAlias);
    }
 
 $resource->save();
}

return 'Created new aliases for ' . $count . 'resources';

That will give you aliases that are lowercase versions of the pagetitle with any spaces converted to hyphens.

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drwagner13 Reply #3, 12 years, 1 month ago

This appears to have worked perfectly. You are a lifesaver.

Revo 2.0.8-pl

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BobRay Reply #4, 12 years, 1 month ago

I'm glad it worked. Thanks for reporting back.

Please reply and edit the subject to add [Solved].

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BobRay Reply #5, 12 years, 1 month ago

There was a request for fixing empty menu titles. This works just like the snippet above but replaces empty menu titles with the pagetitle:

<?php
/* FixAliases snippet */
  
$resources = $modx->getCollection('modResource');
  
$count = 0;
 
foreach ($resources as $resource ) {
    $menutitle = $resource->get('menutitle');
    if (empty($menutitle) )  {
         $count++
         $pageTitle = $resource->get('pagetitle');
         $newMenuTitle = $pageTitle;
         $resource->set('menutitle', $newMenuTitle);
    }
  
 $resource->save();
}
 
return 'Created new menutitles for ' . $count . 'resources';

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