🔗 GroupSlugRouter – Clean & Friendly Group URLs + Profile Integration group overview
Give your OSSN groups a professional touch!
🔍 Key Features Implemented
Slug Generation

Automatically generates a slug from a group’s title upon creation.

Stored as an object entity of subtype groupslugname.

Ensures unique slugs using incremental suffixes (e.g., groupname, groupname-1, etc.).

Vanity URL Routing

Redirects https://your-site/g/slugname to the original group URL.

Profile Integration

Adds a Groups tab to user profile pages showing owned groups with sorting options.

Admin Debug Tool

/slugdebug allows admins to test slugs and resolve issues.

Slug Recovery Tool

/administrator/group-slugs/fix allows batch creation of slugs for groups that missed it due to legacy or import issues.

Slug Update on Title Change

When a group title is updated, the corresponding slug is automatically updated and old slugs are deleted.

Critical Discoveries & Fixes
Missing Groups on Activation

Some older groups (e.g., group 291) were not getting slugs during activation due to inconsistent structure or lack of metadata.

This was fixed by:

Switching from ossn_get_entities to raw ossn_get_object queries during activation.

Adding logging to track group title and slug status.

Manual Slug Manipulation Risks

A competing module allowed manual slugs, breaking the link between group title and URL.

GroupSlugRouter now ensures slugs are strictly based on group titles for consistency and integrity.

Error Handling

Fixed early crash due to missing ossn_get_data() by replacing it with ossn_get_object().

Prevented require_once failures with correct GROUPSLUGROUTER path usage.

Admin Warning

If the legacy UserGroups module is active, an admin warning is displayed to avoid conflicts.

🧠 Extra Notes
Slugs are not stored in the ossn_object table but separately as ossn_entities, type object, subtype groupslugname.

Debug logging was extensively used ([SLUG] ...) to track behavior in real time.
💡 Built with care by Eric Redegeld
Special thanks again to the OSSN community member for taking the time to share insights..