Sluggable Behavior / 10.06.2009
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On the web, “slug” is a short text used in a URL to identify and describe a resource. As Mariano Iglesias’ Sluggable Behavior decription says:
This is particularly useful to create SEO links out of, for example, a table of articles. Instead of seeing those ugly /articles/view/4 URLs, use the Sluggable Behavior and easily accept URLs such as /articles/view/my-seo-friendly-article. It handles the slug creation, slug collision, and allows you to specify different settings such as the separator to use, maximum width of a slug, among other useful parameters.
My Sluggable Behavior is a simpler version of Mariano Iglesias’ Sluggable Behavior with a few add-ons. It’s basically the same thing but instead of implementing all the slug logic on the behavior, it just uses Cake’s Inflector::slug() method. With CakePHP 1.3, this method is really powerful and flexible.