Autogeneration of friendly alias on Revo, for accentuated title

Hi,

I try to use Revo for a new project
I have a little problem with the friendly alias autogeneration.

I have accentuated pagetitle like "Présentation" and I want the alias "presentation"

I didn’t found in the documentation the options available for the parameters friendly_alias_restrict_chars_pattern

Is something like this is correct for this parameter :

Simple solution to replace accents in alias on Modx Revolution :

The magic trick => "urlencode"

Place this code in : /core/model/modx/modressource.class.php => line 369 just before "return $alias" :

// =================================================================================================================

$alias = urlencode($alias);

$a = array("c3a0","c3a1","c3a2","c3a3","c3a4","c3a5","c3a0","c3a1","c3a2","c3a3","c3a4","c3a5","c3b2","c3b3",
"c3b4","c3b5","c3b6","c3b8","c3b2","c3b3","c3b4","c3b5","c3b6","c3b8","c3a8","c3a9","c3aa","c3ab","c3a8","c3a9",
"c3aa","c3ab","c3a7","c3a7","c3ac","c3ad","c3ae","c3af","c3ac","c3ad","c3ae","c3af","c3b9","c3ba","c3bb","c3bc",
"c3b9","c3ba","c3bb","c3bc","c3bf","c3b1","c3b1");

$b = Array("a","a","a","a","a","a","a","a","a","a","a","a","o","o","o","o","o","o","o","o","o","o","o","o","e","e",
"e","e","e","e","e","e","c","c","i","i","i","i","i","i","i","i","u","u","u","u","u","u","u","u","y","n","n");

$alias = str_replace($a, $b, $alias);

// =================================================================================================================

Instead of maintaining huge arrays of chars to replace you might use this:



See http://php.net/manual/en/function.iconv.php for more information.

I tried all your suggestions, and Spheerys suggestion results in no alias being created at all. Lechmit’s solution replaces a page title of åäö with %C3%A5%C3%A4%C3%B6. Jakob’s solution results in the characters being replaced by questionmarks: .

Neighther of these seems like good solutions - is there any way to replace characters with umlauts etc with the equivalent but without the unlauts, i.e. åäö becomes aao?

Using MODx Revo 2.0.6

I really don’t understand why the alias encoding is always difficult under MODx
It should easy to select the generation mode !

Isn’t there a consensus about the "standard" of a auto-generated alias ? (ie. : no accent, no space, ü=ue of german language...)

I think it’s controlled by a fairly restrictive preg_replace in the resource/create processor.

The automatic alias generation is completely and 100% configurable in Revolution. There is a great variety of options available under the Friendly URL area in System Settings.

I stand corrected.

I wonder if the OP has a character set problem rather than a configuration problem.

Quote from: OpenGeek at Jan 05, 2011, 05:33 PM

The automatic alias generation is completely and 100% configurable in Revolution. There is a great variety of options available under the Friendly URL area in System Settings.

OK but :
- is there a tutorial about this configuration (I didn’t found it) ?
- why the default configuration leave the accentuated characters in the alias ?

The automatic alias generation is completely and 100% configurable in Revolution. There is a great variety of options available under the Friendly URL area in System Settings.

OpenGeek, I’m guessing you’re referring to the setting friendly_char_restrict_chars? The choices there are pattern, legal, alpha and alphanumeric, but neither of those treat characters with umlauts in a satisfactory way as far as I can tell. Is there an option which subsititutes åäö with aao? Just removing the characters from the alias is really bad from a SEO and usability perspective for those of us using languages with frequent occurances of umlauts and accented characters (Swedish, Norwegian, German, French, Spanish etc).