Force saving a lowercase URL in the SilverStripe admin

Question

For SEO purposes I need to be sure all URLs are saved as lowercase.

How can I force the SilverStripe admin to save the URL in lowercase even if the user types the permalink in uppercase?

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 23 '15 at 17:11

6

You can do this in your Page's onBeforeWrite method:

protected function onBeforeWrite() {
    parent::onBeforeWrite(); //this is important!
    $this->URLSegment = strtolower($this->URLSegment);
}

answered Oct 23 '15 at 17:11

wmk

Thanks works perfect, it have to be added in the:class Page extends SiteTree {} function. – open-ecommerce.org Oct 24 '15 at 08:16
Of course you can put it in a DataExtension (where you also have the onBeforeWrite() method) if you prefer to have it more modular and portable. – wmk Oct 24 '15 at 10:36
@wmk how can i contact you? – ifusion Oct 25 '15 at 23:43

1 Answers1