[use unique alias]alias field add article id on alias

Hello

i checked and Joomla also forces a unique alias

(unique regardless of category too)

instead of article id it adds a incrementing number :

_2
_3
etc

so there is no simple way to allow this without breaking behavior of unique alias

Hello, all!

I have updated FlexiContent to v. 2 and all my site links became broken

My SEO component builds path in this way:
site.com/category1_alias/categor ... alias.html

So, I have for example 20 articles with alias "index" in 20 different categories. It may not cause any system confilct and must me allowed, I think.

OK, I understand that Joomla's standard it to have unique aliases, but de-facto standard differs from it.
I think no product must broke anything that worked by years on production.

I hope you'll "broke" this feature as you "fixed" it before.

P.S.: FlexiContent v. 2 is really good, I was really wondered full back compatibility with previous version in such flexible product (except alias problem).

Hello

i have tested a fix/improvement:
only require unique alias if content items have:
- same main category
- ?? any secondary category is common
- same language

To test fix/improvement, edit:
administrator\components\com_flexicontent\tables\flexicontent_items.php

and replace: with:

Unfortunately this patch did not work for me.

I do not use any language settings (language=all), my article has alias="index", but it has only one secondary category ( =primary directory), and it is totally alone in this category.

And I still have alias="index_13" after saving with alias "index"

Hello

-- this is the file does the check for duplicate alias, so you can disable it there by setting (don't do it yet, see below):
$duplicate_alias = array();


-- The given patch above will allow duplicate alias for items:
- if items have different language (not your case)
- if items in different category, (your case)

... about SAME category(-ies), you can see in the query, this:
' AND (i.catid='.(int)$this->id ... OR secondart categories

this means that it checks, for duplicate alias only for items INSIDE SAME CATEGORY !!

-- SO you must have another item WITH SAME alias in SAME category ?? !!

Test this change, (check for main category and not secondaries), replace: with: