# Generate URL from Titel
**URL:** https://discourse.getcockpit.com/t/generate-url-from-titel/1248
**Category:** General
**Created:** [March 5, 2020, 3:01pm UTC](https://discourse.getcockpit.com/t/generate-url-from-titel/1248 "2020-03-05T15:01:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@pix3l](https://discourse.getcockpit.com/u/pix3l)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2020, 3:01pm UTC](https://discourse.getcockpit.com/t/generate-url-from-titel/1248/1 "2020-03-05T15:01:07Z")
Hey,
is there a way or a php snippet, that would generate a field “url” from a possible Title field?
In a perfect world, this snippet or function would replace “spaces” with “-” and “&” with “and”.
eg:
Title: Sound & Music
URL: sound-and-music
Thanks in advance 🙂
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### Author:  [@Zignature](https://discourse.getcockpit.com/u/Zignature)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2020, 3:09pm UTC](https://discourse.getcockpit.com/t/generate-url-from-titel/1248/2 "2020-03-05T15:09:11Z")
Add the slug option to the field.
`{"slug":true}`
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### Author:  [@Zignature](https://discourse.getcockpit.com/u/Zignature)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2020, 3:11pm UTC](https://discourse.getcockpit.com/t/generate-url-from-titel/1248/3 "2020-03-05T15:11:32Z")
it will unfortunately remove the &.
To replace the & you’ll need to use the BetterSlugs addon and create a callback function
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### Author:  [@pix3l](https://discourse.getcockpit.com/u/pix3l)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2020, 4:26pm UTC](https://discourse.getcockpit.com/t/generate-url-from-titel/1248/4 "2020-03-05T16:26:37Z")
You mean like this?
I don’t see any “slug” field inside the json.
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### Author:  [@Zignature](https://discourse.getcockpit.com/u/Zignature)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2020, 4:28pm UTC](https://discourse.getcockpit.com/t/generate-url-from-titel/1248/5 "2020-03-05T16:28:38Z")
Yes like that 🙂
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### Author:  [@pix3l](https://discourse.getcockpit.com/u/pix3l)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2020, 4:32pm UTC](https://discourse.getcockpit.com/t/generate-url-from-titel/1248/6 "2020-03-05T16:32:34Z")
Well, there is no field “slug” appearing in my json:
I added the field “url” by hand btw.
Then what am I doing wrong?
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### Author:  [@Zignature](https://discourse.getcockpit.com/u/Zignature)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2020, 5:50pm UTC](https://discourse.getcockpit.com/t/generate-url-from-titel/1248/7 "2020-03-05T17:50:57Z")
No there won’t be a field called slug. It’s Just a mechanism to retrieve an entry by using the slug that’s created in the retrieving URL.
If you need a field called slug, again, you should try the BetterSlugs add-on. It has some more options you may find handy.
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### Author:  [@Zignature](https://discourse.getcockpit.com/u/Zignature)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2020, 5:57pm UTC](https://discourse.getcockpit.com/t/generate-url-from-titel/1248/8 "2020-03-05T17:57:19Z")
Reisen & Natur will create the slug reisen-natur.
Reisen und Natur will create the slug reisen-und-natur.
In your front-end you need to configure to use that slug with a routing mechanism.
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### Author:  [@Zignature](https://discourse.getcockpit.com/u/Zignature)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2020, 6:03pm UTC](https://discourse.getcockpit.com/t/generate-url-from-titel/1248/9 "2020-03-05T18:03:13Z")
In your front-end the slug can be retrieved as data.title\_slug.
Checkout a small tutorial about Nuxt.js with Cockpit cms.
Dynamic routing using the slug is explained in part 2: [https://willbrowning.me/building-a-static-blog-with-nuxt-js-and-cockpit-headless-cms-part-2-dynamic-routes/](https://willbrowning.me/building-a-static-blog-with-nuxt-js-and-cockpit-headless-cms-part-2-dynamic-routes/)
It seems \_slug is appended to the fieldname and returned as fieldname\_slug.
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### Author:  [@pix3l](https://discourse.getcockpit.com/u/pix3l)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2020, 10:41am UTC](https://discourse.getcockpit.com/t/generate-url-from-titel/1248/10 "2020-03-14T10:41:47Z")
> [@Zignature](#):
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> {“slug”:true}
This actually worked as intended. Thank you so much.
My misstake: I had to go to the “title” field in every entry and re-write the title, in order to make this work, as Cockpit does not automatically set a slug for already existing title-entries.
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### Author:  [@Zignature](https://discourse.getcockpit.com/u/Zignature)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2020, 12:49pm UTC](https://discourse.getcockpit.com/t/generate-url-from-titel/1248/11 "2020-03-14T12:49:21Z")
Glad it works now 😃