[cvs] [Wiki] created: Doc/Dev/Slugs

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

chuck  Sun, 18 May 2008 23:15:25 -0400

Created page: http://wiki.horde.org/Doc/Dev/Slugs

+ Slugs in Horde Applications

++ What is a slug?

wikipedia link, etc.


++ Slug specification for Horde

- allowed characters
- length


++ Autogeneration


++ JavaScript support


++ URL rewriting




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* you can't create slugs with hyphens or underscores, even though these are
valid in urls

* the character limit is quite short (longer titles can be useful for SEO).

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and a few usability enhancements...

* javascript to auto-generate the slug based on the form title would be
nice.  Similar to how EE does things, when the slug field is empty, as a
user types in the page title, the slug is generated, converting spaces to
underscores or hyphens (could be config, or default to underscore).  Once
the slug input has a value, changing the title doesn't change the slug.

* display a warning if a user tries to change the slug after a form has
already been saved ("Warning: changing the slug will cause the link for this
form to change.")