Wrong slug when creating page in panel

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1

When I create a page in the panel with a name that starts with a number and is followed by a - or a character that is changed to a - (for example ‘100.1 test’):

Then the url appendix dialog says ‘101-1-test’ which is correct.

But when I click on ‘Add’, the created slug is ‘1-test’.

When I click back to the parent, I see that is has been given an index of 101. But I never meant to give it an index and I wouldn’t expect the add page dialog to do this.

Is this a bug in panel or am I doing something wrong?

2

Well, page slugs may not start with a number, because numbers are reserved for visibility purposes in Kirby. If you have to use a title that starts with a number, you have to make sure that the number is not part of the UID.

3

Isn’t it strange that the panel’s add page feature is first reporting the url appendix in the correct way and is then changing it afterwards? Feels like a bug to me…

Shouldn’t it then report an error instead, when adding the page? ‘UID’s may not start with a number’

4

Yes, the Panel should indeed report an error. This is a known issue.

Yes, I agree, that’s a bit weird. Are you using a hook that makes a page visible on page creation?

Workarounds that have been used by other users:

  • use a hook that removes leading numbers from the slug on page creation.
  • use two titles
5

Is there a related issue on Github for this?

6

https://github.com/getkirby/panel/issues/326

7

Thanks!

I am not working with page visibility… In my project, I assume all pages to be ‘visible’. And I really want to avoid having every page directory having a number in front…

8

I wonder, does putting a ‘-’ as the first character also make the page visible without giving it an index?

9

Actually, if the first ‘-’ would be swallowed by kirby’s slug system, we could add a - in front when the page name starts with a number and don’t want it to be used as visibility index… and it would still start out invisible

‘-101.1 test’ would generate slug: ‘101-1-test’

I will probably implement this on my side as a hook.

11

If only it was this simple… It seems the $page->move() function swallows the first ‘-’ instead.

12

I think you can only use an underscore, not a dash.

13

Underscores are changed to dashes, which are then stripped from the start of the slug

14

Hm, too bad :thinking:

15

I tried creating a hook that adds ‘qqq’ to the start of the dirname when it starts with a number:

  if (preg_match('/^[0-9]+\-/', $page->dirname())) {
    $page->move('qqq'.$page->dirname());
    $page->hide();
  }

Sadly, this results in ‘101.1.test’ -> dirname ‘101-qqq101-1-test’…

Shouldn’t the hide call remove the 101- at the start?

16

Haven’t tested, but I think this can’t work, you probably have to store the new page after move in a variable first before you can hide it.

17

as far as I can see, $page->move() does not return a new value to save in a variable…

18

Yes, it creates a boolean, but fetch the new page:

$newPage = page('qqq'. $page->dirname());
$newPage->hide();
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19

That gives me another error actually… and I am confused why I would need to create a new page after calling $page->move() in the first place… doesn’t it update these things internally when calling move?

Anyway, I am calling a day on this… Will try to figure out a cleaner way of dealing with this number issue another time. Thanks for helping!

20

I figured out a way to add a leading dash by going through the file system instead:

  kirby()->hook('panel.page.create', function($page) {
    if (preg_match('/^[0-9]+\-/', $page->dirname())) {
      $name = '-'.$page->dirname();
      $uri = $page->parent()->uri() . DS . $name;
      $root = dirname($page->root()) . DS . $name;
      dir::move($page->root(), $root);
      $this->panel->redirect('pages' . DS . $uri . DS . 'edit');
    }
  });
21

Does this stay in place when you update the page via the Panel?