Advanced Search

CakePHP - generate unique slug

/ Published in: PHP
Save to your folder(s)
this method generates and returns a unique slug, given a string.

Expand | Embed | Plain Text

Copy this code and paste it in your HTML 
  1. /**
  2.  * genera uno slug unico per le ricerche e i fancy url
  3.  * @param $string {string} stringa da trasformare in slug
  4.  * @return $slug {string} uno slug valido (yyy-yyyyyy-yyy), appende un numero alla fine per renderlo unico
  5.  */
  6.  	public function __to_slug($string) {		
  7. 		$slug = strtolower(Inflector::slug($string, '-'));
  8. 		$count = $this->find( 'count', array(
  9. 			'conditions' => array(
  10. 				$this->alias . ".slug REGEXP" => "^($slug)(-\d+)?"
  11. 			)
  12. 		));
  13. 		// genero un url  nome-slug-1 -- nome-slug-2 
  14. 		if($count > 0) return $slug . "-" . $count;
  15. 		else return $slug;
  16. 	}

Report this snippet


Comments

RSS Icon Subscribe to comments

You need to login to post a comment.