Friendly URLs - dashes

When system automatically creates an alias, it inserts "_" betweeb words. But there should be dashes. Standard says, that dashes divide words and are the same as spaces, _s don’t. This is also how Google and other search engines treats URLs.

- this_is_one_word for Google and will be indexed like one word, however
- this-are-four-words

Also, why is strtolower($alias) commented out?

I think this should be changed.

As far as this is in bug tracker and David Molliere agreed, I’ve made that change in SVN.

The fix is already there in bug tracker: http://modxcms.com/bugs/task/371

regards.

zi

Quote from: tillda at Jun 26, 2006, 03:07 AM

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Also, why is strtolower($alias) commented out?
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This is to allow you capital letters in alias, e.g. My-Document.html

Quote from: zi at Jun 26, 2006, 08:57 AM

This is to allow you capital letters in alias, e.g. My-Document.html

Do we need this? I think it’s a usability violation.

Quote from: zi at Jun 26, 2006, 08:57 AM

The fix is already there in bug tracker: http://modxcms.com/bugs/task/371

I know (but it wasn’t implemented, at least in the SVN tree I have).

@Usability: I dont think so, but I am not that pro in this field but if I recall it has something to do with Google Site maps. If you dont need it, simply uncomment .

@SVN: I dont know, may be someone else tell you better in this regard.