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When you add a title in the channel entry section - the URL-title is auto created for you…

I am running a multilingual site and intend to have titles for each language.
On the template side of things i will then be adding this title to the end of the url for keywording purposes.

However, of course this is going to have lots of funny characters, spaces, etc in it.
Now i am 99% positive there is either an EE template tag, or a CI helper that would do this conversion without me having to manually do it… But for the life of me i cannot find it.
Does anyone know this off the top of their head?

I do not mind if it is either an EE tag or in CI and i will make a little plugin - anything!
Thanks hope you can help me find it - i’ll keep looking in the mean time!

nevsie,

Characters in the URL title field are automatically converted.

For example try copying and pasting ‘für’ into the title field and you will see the URL title field update with ‘fuer’

Is this not the case for you?

Hi John,
Think i did not explain very well…

Yes from the backend the title field is auto-url-encoded… however, if i am have title, title_fr, title_de - these other titles would not be converted as the system only see’s them as one entry, with one URL-title to make.

From the template side i am using - domain.com/group/template/id/keyword-string
Where keyword string would be relevant to the language to aid in local searches, etc.

Therefore, for english - i can easily use “url_title” but i do not have an option for this for title_fr, title_de, etc.
Hence i was either after a template tag, or plugin, or the CI helper so i could make a plugin.

It took me a while digging (i was looking for encode first!) but i found the CI helper:
url_title() at http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-guide/helpers/url_helper.html
And when i was about to build the plugin i found @_rsan had already produced the plugin:
http://devot-ee.com/add-ons/create-url-title/

So… multi lingual site keeps moving forward! just very slowly.

Ah ok I get you now 😊
And awesome find on the plugin. Bookmaking for myself. I there anything else we can help you with regarding this?

nope, thats great thanks, close away!

Good stuff. Feel free as always to start a new thread if you have any more questions