* at 03/05 11:48 +0100 Simon Wistow said: > > My first thought would be to do something like ... > > 1. Lower case the title > 2. Strip out common words like and, a, but, and, like, or etc etc. > 3. Convert spaces to underscores. > 4. Check to see if that's unique, if it's not then add a number on the > end (my least favourite bit about it) or ask the editor for an > alternative. > > Or I could just ask the editor everytime. > > Ideas?
Stuff the date in there if it's not unique? So you have http://example.com/drink_like_a_monger.html and then a later article is http://example.com/drink_like_a_monger_may_3.html The date is at least a bit more contextual than a number. Asking the editor every time might result in a lot of one word names that might not be very helpful, people being lazy and all that. s
