Introduction¶
"Speaking URLs" are a must-have feature for web pages. TYPO3 v9 and newer provide the Routing feature for this. Former TYPO3 versions needed the third-party extensions RealURL or CoolUri.
TYPO3 also provides the navigational content elements "Section index" and "Section index of subpages from selected pages", which will build a list of pages and their included content elements.
These content elements will be linked by their unique id, e.g.:
https://www.example.org/a-sub-page/#c123
It's working well, but it's not human-readable.
What does it do?¶
First of all, this extension provides human-readable URL fragments for TYPO3 content elements:
https://www.example.org/a-sub-page/#section-of-interest
Furthermore, the extension allows to set anchor links next to the header. An editor can activate these with a checkbox for individual content elements.
Note
In fact, you can see both features in action on this very documentation page:
Hover your mouse over a heading. A link symbol will appear. This is the anchor link.
Click on this anchor. Your browser will jump to this section. A readable fragment will be added to the URL.
Features¶
Editors can set individual, human-readable fragment identifiers per content element.
Editors can use a button to automatically generate a fragment from the current header.
Editors can activate anchor links to headers per content element.
Scope: The human-readable fragment is used in Section Index menus, as well as for links in the RTE or TCA fields with renderType
inputLink
.Fallback: If no custom fragment is given, or the header is hidden, the default fragment is used in rendered links.
Evaluation #1: Only supported characters are stored. Special characters are replaced.
Evaluation #2: All content elements on the same page will get a unique fragment identifier.
Error prevention: By default, the fragments are prepended with the uid of the content element.
Of course, the Fluid templates can be customized to your needs.