Add unique suffix to friendly URLs

[chrisandy]

For pages in a collection I need to find a way of suffixing the alias with say the resource id so it allows for resources with the same name but a different alias. Is that at all possible?

[halftrainedharry]

This should be possible, but you have to set the “Resource Alias” field manually (and not rely on the automatic creation of the alias based on the pagetitle).

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If you want to automate it, you probably have to create a custom plugin (event OnBeforeDocFormSave) and set the alias there (if it’s empty).

[chrisandy]

You pointed me in the right direction and after some searching I found a plugin on an old thread and this does the job - set to OnDocFormSave…

/* act only on new resources */
if ($mode != modSystemEvent::MODE_NEW) return;
$pageTitle = $resource->get('pagetitle');
$code = $resource->get('id');
// $code = date("Y.m.d-H:i:s");
$alias = $resource->cleanAlias($pageTitle);
$newAlias = $alias . $code;
$resource->set('alias', $newAlias);
$resource->save();```