SEO, slug, etc.

EmmanuelD

Hi,

How discussions url are handled, I don't see any slug field. This is a huge issue when you try to transfer from an old forum and want to keep the SEO juice

luceos

The title slug is created from the discussion title automatically. An extension could, however, pick up that responsibility.

EmmanuelD

This isn't going to be a core functionality so? Has someone planned to develop an extension for this already?

luceos

EmmanuelD no, haven't seen any related extension pop up here or on packagist so far.

luceos

See this and this.

EmmanuelD

As far as I understand it the slug get generated when the discussion is retrieved from the database, however how the routing is handled ? (in order to get the discussion for a given slug)

luceos

EmmanuelD discussion is retrieved from the database

The setTitleAttribute method is one of those mutators laravel uses. If you set $discussion->title = 'foo'; This method is called.

Related to routing; the slug isn't used to retrieve the discussion, see https://discuss.flarum.org/d/2100-somefakeslug

You should be able to change the slug attribute from within an extension, as long as you do it after the title property has been assigned a value.