Hi

The alias has to be different. I have changed the value of a field by concating the alias and userid with the beforestire field.

Bucklash

Hi Bucklash,

Thanks for stopping by. However, am confused with your suggestion am still new to seblod.

Can you kindly explain clearer?

Thanks for your time.

Hi Yusuf

Bucklash

Hi,

i am using custom Article Content Type and i have added fields to your Article Content Type.

The value in the DB under title, and alias are as seen in image above.

I don't really know what to fix?

Whenever a content with the same title is submitted it returns error?

Thanks

Hello Yusuf,

It's a Joomla feature. You can't have a content with the same title (so the same alias) in the same category.

Two solutions :

• Add the Ajax validation on the title field, so the user will be alerted that the title is already existing, before submitting.
• Generate a unique alias before the article is stored, by using the Plugin Code "Before Store"

Regards.

Lionel

Hi Lionel

This is exactly the same issue I have, where I have events with the same name. My solution would be to add the article ID number to the front of each alias, thereby making the alias unique. Do you think this would be possible? If not perhaps a random 4 digit number.

Hi offthehookdesign

// assign pk value
$configPk = $config['pk'];
// Get a db connection.
$db = JFactory::getDbo();
// Create query object
$query1 = $db->getQuery(true); 
// get alias from article with id of 'pk'
$query1
->select($db->quoteName(array('alias')))
->from($db->quoteName('#__content'))
->where($db->quoteName('id') . ' = '. $configPk);
// load the result, loadAssoc is for use with arrays. In this instance there is only one value, but other times you might need to get more than one value
$db->setQuery($query1);
$result1 = $db->loadAssoc();
// store the result as variable
$result1Alias = $result1['alias'];
// Create query object
$query2 = $db->getQuery(true);
// select the column to update and with what
$fields = array(
    $db->quoteName('alias') . ' = ' . $db->quote($result1Alias . '-' . $configPk)
);
// Conditions for which records should be updated.
$conditions = array(
    $db->quoteName('id') . ' = ' . $db->quote($configPk)
);
$query2->update($db->quoteName('#__content'))->set($fields)->where($conditions);
 
$db->setQuery($query2);
 
$result = $db->execute();
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Bucklash

Hi,

Thanks for your contributions. I finally got a plugin to fix this at: https://www.seblod.com/community/forums/fields-plug-ins/unique-alias-automaticly

Thanks for you time.