Manually choose tinyurl slug?

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Is there a way to manually choose your slug for a page’s tinyurl?

2

No, but you could create a simple redirection template and set up the desired slugs as redirections to the pages you want.

3

Yeah, I have a redirection template already, so that’s potentially possible. One more step. It would be nice to just put the slug in a tinyurl field or something.

4

This should be possible with a custom route. You can search for the page with the correct value in the tinyurl field and than go to this page.

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Ooh, good idea. I’ll pursue that.

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If you get a working solution @fitzage, I’d love to see your code :wink:

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More important things have taken my time. I’ll try to work on this soon, though.

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So the custom route was almost too easy.

c::set('routes', array(
  array(
    'pattern' => 't/(:all)',
    'action'  => function($slug) {
        $page = site()->index()->findBy('tiny', $slug);
        go($page ? $page->url() : 'error');
    }
  )
));
  1. Notice I used t as my folder name. I left the standard kirby functionality as x.
  2. Looks in the index for a page with a field tiny with a value that matches whatever comes after t/ in the URL. If it doesn’t find it, it throws a 404.
  3. Now in the header (or anywhere I display a tiny url on the page) I’ll check for this field and display a URL that matches. If the field is empty, I’ll display the standard kirby shorturl.
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9

That’s really cool! I built a TinyURL field and I’m thinking of a way to integrate the functionality you described here as part of that field. How would you do it?

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I haven’t really played with custom portal fields. My simple method doesn’t actually replace that tinyurl. It would basically be a secondary field that would override it. Well, not even override it. Both would still work.

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Sort of like having two fields side by side:
Default tinyurl / Custom tinyurl.
That’s a thought!