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richtestani

I have an observer generating a slug base on peoples names. Some names have suffix like Jr. or Sr., so slugs generated are 'first-last-jr.'

When I query this, the where clause strips the ending period, so I cannot do an exact match. Any way to remedy this?

Thanks

Rich

richtestani

OK - let me retract this statement.
It's the param method when it parses a URL segment.

Anyway around this since I pass in the value to the URL?

Thanks
Rich

Harro

A dot in the URL is seen as the extension separator, which the Framework strips off. The only way to work around it is to disable 'strip_extensions' in the routing section of your config.php.

richtestani

Is there a way to get the observer to strip that while generating the slug?

Or just strip it myself when I save it?

What would you suggest is a best work around?

Thanks

Rich

Harro

The Observer_Slug uses Inflector::friendly_title() to generate the slug.

And as far as I can see that strips the dot from the string passed, both in ASCII as in UTF-8 mode. So how your slug can contain a dot, I don't know. Which version of Fuel are you on?

richtestani

I'm running version 1.4

Reviewing friendly_title, It appears the '.' character is stripped.

if ($allow_non_ascii)

{

// Strip regular special chars.

$str = preg_replace("#[\.;:'\"\]\}\[\{\+\)\(\*&\^\$\#@\!±`%~']#i", '', $str);

}

But upon testing, it seems to actually strip it.

It must be in the example I happen to be working with

has the dot for some other reason.

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