"Automatically generate alias" configuration option - Define custom delimiter

I really like the built in "Automatically generate alias" option that comes with MODx.

In some cases, however, I’d like to leave the feature Enabled, but use an underscore ( _ ) instead of the hyphen ( - ).

this-alias-was-created-automatically

would be:

this_alias_was_created_automatically

Others may want something completely different than underscore...

In short: I wonder how easy it would be to allow a couple of Delimiter Options for automatically generated aliases...

Agreed, this would be a great thing to have.

I confess I always install the CustomAlias plugin, if anything else because it properly generate aliases from accented characters (french has a lot of them) but also because you can edit the array of character replacement (and change - to _ if you want ).

I really think this plugin, and the SEO strict plugin should be merged and added to MODx pure and simple, those features should be built in IMHO... or distributed with it. I know we try to avoid bloating MODx distro and that’s good, but this is a key feature, especially since we advertise being a "SEO" CMS

Honda advertises they make some of the most high performance engines as found in the NSX. That doesn’t mean they should be put in the Civic. Not all users are interested in the finer points and the education and support times for integrating and explaining the various options means added support loads for things that don’t necessarily always apply (think standard IIS servers).

And MODx even in it’s base form is a highly capable SEO platform. Heck the MODx site itself has made it to some #1 spots on a lot of competitive keyphrases in Google without the benefit of these plugins!

That said, doesn’t mean I don’t have a custom installer setup with those options myself, and I sure do look forward to adding them to the MODx site itself.

(The main reasoning is that if it doesn’t apply to everyone with a high degree of probability, it likely won’t get included.)

I sure can understand the logic, and of course I don’t doubt MODx capabilities... this being said, I’ll make sure to provide instructions and support to french users to use the CustomAlias plugin to have accented words correctly taken into account for alias generation. This is one issue often reported by french people testing MODx is why I am talking about it.

Now that bit honestly should be integrated at the core level indeed ... not even requiring a plugin.

And now it is a part of 096 ... and David you’ll be pleased to know I used some of the same stuff that the Textpattern folks did with their i18n to ASCII stuff.

Hats off and thank you very much !
Great news

Quote from: rthrash at May 10, 2007, 04:02 PM

And now it is a part of 096 ... and David you’ll be pleased to know I used some of the same stuff that the Textpattern folks did with their i18n to ASCII stuff.

If I understand correctly, are you saying that as of 0.9.6 stable foreign characters are converted as part of 096 core?