pagemachine/typo3-flat-urls

Flat URLs (like Stack Overflow) for TYPO3

Flat URLs

Flat URLs (like Stack Overflow) for TYPO3, _(*1)

Installation

This extension is installable from various sources:, _(*2)

1. Via Composer:, _(*3)

   composer require pagemachine/typo3-flat-urls

2. From the TYPO3 Extension Repository, _(*4)

3. From Github

Purpose

The purpose of this extension is to enforce so called "flat URLs" throughout the TYPO3 frontend. Thus instead of my/deeply/nested/page/ you will always get URLs like 10/page/ (thus page UID and title), no matter the actual page hierarchy managed in the backend., _(*5)

Page translations will use the same UID as their original page but with translated titles. Thus you need to make sure that the language parameter (_language) is part of the URL to avoid duplicate URLs with multiple translations., _(*6)

For flat URLs this extension manages the slugs of pages, thus these are not editable anymore. Whenever a page is edited the slugs are updated automatically so they stay in sync with their related fields (title by default). If a page slug changes, a redirect is added automatically. Conflicting redirects when changing slugs back and forth are removed to ensure pages are always accessible., _(*7)

Similar to Stack Overflow pages requested only by page UID will be redirected to their full URL. This means that e.g. https://example.org/10/ redirects to https://example.org/10/page/. This also works for translations., _(*8)

Command

If you have existing pages when adding this extension or if you want to ensure a clean state you can run the slugs:update CLI command. It will update the slugs of all pages and page translations., _(*9)

Testing

All tests can be executed with the shipped Docker Compose definition:, _(*10)

docker compose run --rm app composer build