sfPropelActAsSluggableBehaviorPlugin - 0.2.0

Propel sluggable behavior

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sfPropelActAsSluggableBehaviorPlugin plugin

This sfPropelActAsSluggableBehaviorPlugin plugin that automates the generation of 'slugs' based on the return value of a model method. These are useful to hide the primary key in routing requests, and make your urls look fancy.

For example, for a blog post whose title is 'A post', this behavior will fill the slug database field with 'a_post'. If a_post exists, a_post_1 is used, and so on.

Instalation

  • Install the plugin

      symfony plugin-install http://plugins.symfony-project.com/sfPropelActAsSluggableBehaviorPlugin

  • Add the slug field to your schema.yml for a desired table

    ...
title:      varchar(255)
slug:       varchar(255)
...

  • Enable Propel behavior support in propel.ini:

      propel.builder.AddBehaviors = true

    If you have to enable the behavior support, rebuild your model:

      symfony propel-build-model

  • Enable the behavior for one of your Propel model:

    <?php
  // lib/model/ForumPost.php
  class ForumPost
  {
  }
 
  $columns_map = array('from'   => ForumPostPeer::TITLE,
                       'to'     => ForumPostPeer::SLUG);
 
  sfPropelBehavior::add('ForumPost', array('sfPropelActAsSluggableBehavior' => array('columns' => $columns_map, 'separator' => '_', 'permanent' => true)));

    The column map is used by the behavior to know which columns hold information it needs :

    • from : Model column holding the string to convert. For example, the post title. ('title' by default)
    • to : Model column holding the generated string, aka slug. ('slug' by default)

    The separator parameter is used by the behavior to replace the whitespaces. ('-' by default) The permanent paramter is used by the behavior to avoid generating the slug when the model is updating the from column, useful for permalinks. (false by default)

Usage

Every time a post is saved, the slug will be generated automatically. You can later access it through ->getSlug() for example.