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This extension is a simple eZ Publish Platform (Legacy) kernel override extension which overrides the default ezchartransform class to provide a simple feature it allows all content urls to be separated by a dash character rather than the default underscor character. Great for advanced developers!

With this kernel class override installed and enabled you can finally use the dash character as a url separator character in all your content.

This is helpful and useful for distinguishing website from others with just the default urlalias_compat configuration using underscores in their urls.

Version

• The current version of BC Url Alias With Dash is 0.1.1

• Last Major update: March 24, 2023

Copyright

• BC Url Alias With Dash is copyright 1999 - 2023 Brookins Consulting and eZ Systems AS

• See: COPYRIGHT.md for more information on the terms of the copyright and license

License

BC Url Alias With Dash is licensed under the GNU General Public License.

The complete license agreement is included in the LICENSE file.

BC Url Alias With Dash is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License or at your option a later version.

BC Url Alias With Dash is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

The GNU GPL gives you the right to use, modify and redistribute BC Url Alias With Dash under certain conditions. The GNU GPL license is distributed with the software, see the file LICENSE.

It is also available at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with BC Url Alias With Dash in LICENSE.

If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

Using BC Url Alias With Dash under the terms of the GNU GPL is free (as in freedom).

For more information or questions please contact: license@brookinsconsulting.com

Requirements

The following requirements exists for using BC Url Alias With Dash extension:

eZ Publish version

• Make sure you use eZ Publish version 5.x (required) or higher.

• Designed and tested with eZ Publish Legacy 5.99alpha1

PHP version

• Make sure you have PHP 5.x or higher.

Features

This solution provides the following features:

• Kernel Module Class Override Class: eZCharTransform

Dependencies

• This solution depends on eZ Publish Legacy and kernel class overrides enabled in config.php

Kernel class override

This solution overrides the following kernel class:

• PHP Class : eZCharTransform - Found by default at: lib/ezutils/classes/ezchartransform.php

This solution provides the following kernel class override:

• PHP Class : eZCharTransform - Found by at: extension/bcurlaliaswithdash/classes/kerneloverride/v2023.03.24/lib/ezutils/classes/ezchartransform.php

Note: This solution requires only one legacy kernel class override of a class that is very stable and not subject to much change (if at all) per release (which is important for maintainability). The class has not been modified or needed a bugfix since early 2017.

Installation

Bundle Installation via Composer

Run the following command from your project root to install the bundle:

bash$ composer require brookinsconsulting/bcurlaliaswithdash dev-master;

Extension Activation

Optional. Activate this extension by adding the following to your settings/override/site.ini.append.php:

[ExtensionSettings]
# <snip existing active extensions list />
ActiveExtensions[]=bcurlaliaswithdash

Kernel class override extensions are not activated via ini settings. Normal site.ini extension activation settings are not required to use this extension and it's solution.

Enable eZ Publish Kernel Overrides

Kernel class overrides are only able to be used if you add the following to your eZ Publish Legacy config.php configuration file.

cp -va config.php-RECOMMENDED config.php;
# Edit config.php to set 'EZP_AUTOLOAD_ALLOW_KERNEL_OVERRIDE' to true. It should look like this:
define( 'EZP_AUTOLOAD_ALLOW_KERNEL_OVERRIDE', true );

Regenerate kernel class override autoloads

Regenerate kernel class override autoloads (Required).

php ./bin/php/ezpgenerateautoloads.php --kernel-override;

Clear the caches

Optional. Clear eZ Publish Platform / eZ Publish Legacy caches (Required).

php ./bin/php/ezcache.php --clear-all;

Usage

The solution is configured to work virtually by default once properly installed.

Note: Once installed. Clear caches and run the bin/php/updateniceurls.php script to convert to urls with dash separators.

Note: This solution depends on the setting, '[URLTranslator] TransformationGroup=urlalias_compat' in site.ini.append.php

Note: In some installations after runing the above script republishing of all nodes in content tree was required. This was done via the admin in less than 10min.

Troubleshooting

Read the FAQ

Some problems are more common than others. The most common ones are listed in the the doc/FAQ.md

Support

If you have find any problems not handled by this document or the FAQ you can contact Brookins Consulting through the support system: http://brookinsconsulting.com/contact