I have heard of people using slugs for generating clean urls. I have no idea how it works. Currently i have a codeigniter site which generates url's like this
www.site.com/index.php/blog/view/7
From what i understand by maintaining a slug field it is possible to achieve urls like
www.site.com/index.php/blog/view/once-upon-a-time
How is this done? Especially in reference to codeigniter?
You can use the CI Slug Library by Eric Barnes:
https://github.com/ericbarnes/CodeIgniter-Slug-Library
To my ES friends, remove accented characters using this, from Text Helper:
I just store the slugs in my database table, in a column called
slug
, then find a post with the slug, like this:Also, to easily derive a slug from your post title, just use
url_title()
of the URL helper:A little bonus: you may wish to implement a unique key constraint to the
slug
column, that ensures that each post has a unique slug so it's not ambiguous which post CodeIgniter should look for. Of course, you should probably be giving your posts unique titles in the first place, but putting that in place enforces the rule and prevents your application from screwing up.Creating Page slug in codeigniter
create Helper with the name of slug_helper.php