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sylwesterkowal/plugin.cakephp-slug
==================================

CakePHP Plugin for Slugging

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Slug plugin for CakePHP 3.x
===========================

[](#slug-plugin-for-cakephp-3x)

Plugin CakePHP to generate friendly URLs. Based on the database allows you to generate simple URL for any data model:
Product Link:
Category Link:

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

You can install this plugin into your CakePHP application using [composer](http://getcomposer.org).

The recommended way to install composer packages is:

```
composer require sylwesterkowal/plugin.cakephp-slug

```

Install Table
-------------

[](#install-table)

```
cake Migrations migrate -p Slug

```

Configurations
--------------

[](#configurations)

Configuring the plugin is to add the relationship between table Slug and tables in which to use the generated URL slug.

### ModelTable

[](#modeltable)

For example in plugin "Product" for table "ProductsTable.php" add

```
    public function initialize(array $config)
    {

        ...
        ...

        $this->hasOne('Slug.Slugs', [
            'className' => 'Slugs',
            'foreignKey' => 'pass',
            'conditions' => [
                'plugin' => 'Product',  // Set plugin name
                'controller' => 'Products', // Set controller name
                'action' => 'view'  // Set action name
            ]
        ]);

        $this->addBehavior('Slug.Sluggable', [
            'field' => 'name', // enter the field, which will be generated slug
            'plugin' => 'Product', // set plugin name
            'controller' => 'Products', // set controller name
            'action' => 'view', // set action name
            'pass' => 'id',  // set the field, which will by ID Key
        ]);

    }

```

### Routes configuration

[](#routes-configuration)

```
    $routes->connect(
        '/:slug',
        [],
        ['routeClass' => 'Slug.SlugRoute']
    );

```

### Controller

[](#controller)

```
public $helpers = ['Slug.Slug'];

```

### View

[](#view)

In view use SlugHelper. Parameters are require for standard Html->link url when Slug Plugin for some reason will by offline.

```
echo $this->Slug->link(
    $productEntity,  // Model Entity
    $productEntity->name, // Anchor text
    [ // parameters
        'controller'=>'Products',
        'action'=>'view', $productEntity->id,
        'plugin'=>'Product'
    ]
);

```

###  Health Score

21

—

LowBetter than 18% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity8

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity41

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/323ae994db57a28d614f774f2e32342e7664db0c7da0d297644e04454d16b09c?d=identicon)[SylwesterKowal](/maintainers/SylwesterKowal)

---

Top Contributors

[![SylwesterKowal](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/20624780?v=4)](https://github.com/SylwesterKowal "SylwesterKowal (37 commits)")

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