Stupid automatic suffix to aliases :(

Tomasahl · Post by **Tomasahl** » Sat 1. Jul 2006, 20:45

This is a pretty stupid thing I find. I try to create a new"Home"-level under the "root"-level (see my other posting on multilanguage solutions and the unsolvable crap I have encountered).

So i tried to do as I got an advice to do - to put the swedish version right in the root without any refresh. And it worked, but the english version disappeared and still no HOME-link in the menu.

So I thought "better to move it back again so I at least can use both languages" - and not to my surprise there was no way in hell to get the alias in the "home" directory to be "sw-homepage". Noooo!!!
By some idiotic reason I get an automatic suppix, so it is called "sw-homepage_swkj" and so on. So I delete and try again ... I get something like :"sw-homepage_blahblah".

I feel I am only guessing now and don't know what i am doing. To get it to work in some way I now changed the "sw" to "se" instead. But that can't be the "real" solution to avoidingthese suffixes.

culda_a · Post by **culda_a** » Sat 1. Jul 2006, 21:33

Hi

By some idiotic reason I get an automatic suppix, so it is called "sw-homepage_swkj" and so on. So I delete and try again ... I get something like :"sw-homepage_blahblah".

You get that becouse you have another alias that is identic with the new that you have created

for exemple

for eng language

en_about

de_about

like that it shoul work but if you have

en_about

en_about

to the last one after you make save it will automaticly creat tha sufix like

en_about

de_about_xyj

normaly you have to be carefully not to have 2 tha same check the prefix to the second language not to be the same like the first.

try to use this format

en_about

de_about

not

en-about

de-about

Like this is the original format from Pepe

Tomasahl · Post by **Tomasahl** » Sat 1. Jul 2006, 22:05

Thanks for your answer, but actually no i have not.But I guess then that it is something that is saved i phpwcms somewhere (in the cache or in the sqldatabase?) so i can delete that and then get it right? The problem came because i wanted to make a new alias that had the same name as one i had deleted - so it ought not to be a problem.
Anyway - thansk for answerring.

pico · Post by **pico** » Sat 1. Jul 2006, 22:22

Hi

the Problem comes from a used and deleted Alias - the Database entry is not deleted by deleting a Structurlevel, its just marked as trash. To fix this, goto your Database with phpMyAdmin and delete the Records where trash=9

DeXXus · Post by **DeXXus** » Sat 1. Jul 2006, 22:33

Tomasahl wrote:Thanks for your answer, but actually no i have not.

I'm afraid, you're right, that once you have used and deleted it... it is stored already and compared against when you try to re-use it! So, "existing" -or- "already used"!

Tomasahl wrote:But I guess then that it is something that is saved i phpwcms somewhere (in the cache or in the sqldatabase?) so i can delete that and then get it right?

Yes, inside table phpwcms_articlecat -and- phpwcms_cache (if caching is enabled) are when they are "live".

culda_a · Post by **culda_a** » Sat 1. Jul 2006, 23:23

Right or that

in a more technical explaination and elaborated