Hi dears, I am trying to get a news session for my website. I am using slug to point at the particular news details page. However, it is possible that there can be a duplicate slug in the future as the slug depends on the title of the news. I wanna add another identifier value depending on the post date of the news such that it minimize such possibility. So the URL will be something like www.mywebsite.com/news/3-5-2017/this-is-the-news-title instead of just www.mywebsite.com/news/this-is-the-news-title .

Thats one way i can think of, please help to contribute a solution to this, and at the same time if there are people that can suggest a better convention to deal with this matter please let me know too. Thanks a lot!

Are you using RainLab.Post plugin or your own plugin?

Hi Norotaro, I am using my own plugin

Is there anyone who can help on this still?

What exactly is the problem? You can avoid duplication of slug by adding "unique" validation rule to this field. Add a date in the URL is also an acceptable solution, just make url of page like this "/news/:date/:slug".

You have to use the Sluggable trait, with that you wont have duplicated slugs:

In the above example, if the name column was set to Cheyenne, as a result the slug column would be set to cheyenne, cheyenne-1, or cheyenne-2, etc before the model is created.

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How did you fix this? I don't want urls like title-of-slug-1 title-of-slug-2 title-of-slug-3. I want the date in the url like: url.com/12-sep-2017/title-of-slug/ How do I define what :date should do?

I'm just using the builderPlugin.

Edit: For now, i just manually hardcoded the url with

/portfolio/gallery/{{ gallery.date|date("d-m-Y")|lower }}/{{ gallery.slug }}

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