How to custom automatics alias ?

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Ben Reply #1, 15 years, 6 months ago

Is there a way (without core hacking) to custom automatics alias in MODx Revolution 2.1.0-RC3 ? If, instead the alias generated from the pagetitle, I want an alias generated from id and pagetitle, how to do that ?

In fact, I need to have resources with the same pagetitle under the same parent. For example : /parent/1-child.html and /parent/2-child.html

I try to create a OnBeforeDocFormSave plugin, but MODx check the alias before that.

I know the package translit allows custom transliteration but there is no reference to the resource created or updated. Even if translit had a reference to resource object, the new resource would have no ID.

Somebody has an idea ? Is there another solution ?

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Ben Reply #2, 15 years, 6 months ago

A dirty solution is to remplace, in the getAliasPath from /core/model/modx/modresource.class.php :

$fullAlias= $aliasPath . $fullAlias . $extension;

by

$fullAlias= $aliasPath . $fullAlias . '-' . uniqid() . $extension;

So the resource URI looks like : /parent/child-4dbbdd405093e.html

Is there a better way to do that ?

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Ben Reply #3, 15 years, 6 months ago

Finaly, I made an OnDocFormSave plugin, it’s not perfect but works.

<?php
$eventName = $modx->event->name;
switch($eventName) {
  case 'OnDocFormSave':
    if(!isset($_REQUEST['alias']) || empty($_REQUEST['alias']))
    {
      $alias = $resource->get('alias').'-'.$resource->get('id');
      $resource->set('alias', $alias);
      $resource->save();
    }
  break;
}

Thanks to lossendae for his help.