Alright, so what I just ended up doing was adding a bit of a hack to cake/libs/router.php and app/config/bootstrap.php.
In the Router::url(), I changed the last line: return $output . $extension . $_this->queryString($q, array(), $escape) . $frag; To this: $url = str_replace('_', '-', $output . $extension . $_this->queryString ($q, array(), $escape) . $frag); return $url; Then I added this to the top of my bootstrap: $_GET['url'] = str_replace('-', '_', $_GET['url']); Total hack? You betcha. But it works for now. On Jul 27, 10:56 am, Jamie <jamie....@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes, I know this issue has been raised in the past (a long while ago), > but there's been no satisfying answer yet. > > Basically, best SEO practices say that we should be using hyphens > instead of underscores in our URLs, since search engines such as > Google have an easier time parsing "my-page", rather than "my_page", > as two separate words (and thus a distinct search term). Is it time > for Cake to look at allowing hyphens instead of underscores in URLs? > > Before anyone says "OMG you can just do this" (as Nate suggested > athttp://trac.cakephp.org/ticket/1727): > > $_GET['url'] = str_replace("-", "_", $_GET['url']); > > that's fine for parsing incoming URLs, but it doesn't even come close > to providing a solution since links generated by the Cake router (i.e. > via the HtmlHelper etc.) use underscores instead of hyphens, and > that's that. So for those of us who want to use hyphens instead of > dashes, we need to enter manual URLs instead of using Cake's routing > capabilities. So, sure, we can translate incoming links, but we can't > generate the proper links in the first place. > > Has anyone thought of a solution? Is the Cake team contemplating > adding support for multiple URL separators? Any home brew hacks out > there? > > - Jamie --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---