[TYPO3] Unique page titles? (CoolURI | RealURL)

[Sascha Mantscheff]

Thanks a lot. That's a really helpful answer. Now I even now where the 
numbers come from in non-unique alias fields.
s.m.

Ernesto Baschny [cron IT] schrieb:
> Sascha Mantscheff wrote: on 13.01.2008 00:47:
> 
>> For SEO purposes I'd like to enforce unique page titles throughout my 
>> site. Do you know of an extension or a configuration option which 
>> helps with that?
>> I could just add a unique index to the pages table. But this approach 
>> would require a varchar field instead of a blob, and it would not 
>> consider hidden and deleted page records which should not be taken 
>> into account by the unique title requirement.
> 
> To make TYPO3 enforce that, you need to tweak the TCA that configures 
> the pages "title" field:
> 
> $TCA['pages']['columns']['title']['config']['eval'] = 'required,unique';
> 
> e.g. in typo3conf/extTables.php
> 
> That would enforce the uniqueness by appending numbers to "non-unique" 
> page titles.
> 
> Like Dmitry, I don't see how this relates to realurl / cooluri or how 
> this can be of any use for SEO purposes, but maybe that hint helps in 
> your task.
> 
> Cheers,
> Ernesto