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AndrewD · #**1588** 11-01-2008, 01:00 PM

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Originally Posted by sparklywater

Is it possible to change the catid and linkid values to the actual names of the categories and links? For example, instead of a catid being referred to as a number 2 or 3, they could be referred to as 'music' , 'pictures', etc. ?

I'd like the names of the categories / links to appear in the URLs, even if with dashes / underscores between words in the URL.

You can go part-way using the seo options (LDM/admin/seo options, and choose 'extended'), provided you are able to set up your web server to process the resulting seo-friendly urls. Doing so is explained in the ldm wiki.

This will generate urls with mixed alpha+numeric category names (c-alpha-1218) and with numeric (1234) linkids.

It is not straightforward to take this further, because a) the names do not have to be unique, and b) coding seo-translators to recognise and handle arbitrary names is a pig of a problem.

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