Yii PHP Framework Extension: slug-behavior

*This extension is now updated to work with non latin characters and and works with 1.2

This extension is to save pretty url's from titles to be used as unique identifier's

Note it overwrite's beforeSave... use:

return parent::beforeSave();

In your model if it contains beforeSave method..

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Discussion

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File	Summary	Uploaded on	Downloaded
SlugBehavior.zip (3.6 KB)	Pretty urls	August 17, 2010	12

June 3, 2010

Generate slug only if it needs to be saved.. don't clean non latin characters..

September 22, 2009

Update uses primary key to see if the slug has changed so it not keeps changing the slug

September 20, 2009

Initial release.

Requirements

one primary key like id, use utf8 strings

Installation

Extract the release file under models/behaviors

Usage

Add in model..

public function behaviors(){
    return array(
        'SlugBehavior' => array(
            'class' => 'application.models.behaviors.SlugBehavior',
            'slug_col' => 'slug',
            'title_col' => 'title',
            'max_slug_chars' => 125,
            'overwrite' => false
        )
    );
}

Table example:

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `pages` (
    `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
    `title` varchar(125) NOT NULL,
    `slug` varchar(125) NOT NULL,
    `body` text,
    PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
    UNIQUE KEY `slug` (`slug`),
) ENGINE=InnoDB  DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 AUTO_INCREMENT=0 ;

*Aditional notes becarefull of non latin languages they need to be displayed normally with urldecode(); and take up alot of database characters as they are long like %23# etc :P