Matrix URL Title celltype

This celltype for Matrix on EE2 gives you the ability to create unique “URL Titles” within your Matrix fields.

Requirements

• ExpressionEngine 2
• Matrix 2.0.8 or later

Installation

• Upload the ee2/third_party/matrix_url_title folder to system/expressionengine/third_party/
• Upload the themes/third_party/matrix_url_title folder to themes/third_party/
• Enable Matrix URL Title in Add-Ons → Fieldtypes

Usage

Here’s how you can give a URL Title to one of your Matrix fields:

• Edit your Matrix field in Admin → Channel Administration → Custom Channel Fields
• Click the “+” button beside your Matrix Configuration
• Set your new column’s Cell Type to “Matrix URL Title”
• Give your new column a name, such as “matrix_url_title”
• If you want your URL Title value to be automatically generated based on the value of another column, enter the “title” column’s Col Name into the “Title Col Name” setting

Creating a “Single Row Page” using your URL Title

In ExpressionEngine, a “Single Entry Page” is where the first URL segment that doesn’t map to a template group or template name, does match an entry’s URL Title. ExpressionEngine will automatically return just that one entry within your {exp:channel:entries} tags. (To get any other entries out of the tag, you have to add dynamic="no".)

Matrix doesn’t have any sort of automatic “Single Row Page” display mode yet, but you can get it working yourself using Matrix’s search:col_name= parameter.

Let’s say that your URL structure is like so: /gallery/entry_url_title/matrix_row_url_title/

In that case, {segment_3} is going to be set to your Matrix URL Title. So to filter your Matrix row by whatever was entered into that URL segment, you’d do this:

{matrix_field search:url_title_col_name="{segment_3}" limit="1"}