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Installation for sf 1.2
php symfony plugin:install sfPropelActAsSluggableBehaviorPlugin --release=0.2.0
Installation for sf 1.1
php symfony plugin:install sfPropelActAsSluggableBehaviorPlugin --release=0.2.0
Installation for sf 1.0
php symfony plugin-install http://plugins.symfony-project.org/sfPropelActAsSluggableBehaviorPlugin
PEAR
Download the PEAR package
Repository
Go to the repository: http://svn.symfony-project.com/plugins/sfPropelActAsSluggableBehaviorPlugin
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.
Guillermo Rauch 
