Joomla 1.5: Allow Uppercase in Title Alias

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Published on Monday, 01 November 2010 10:45

Joomla forces the Title Alias to be lowercase.

The Title Alias is used in Joomla SEF URL.

Some reasons to allow uppercase in SEF URL:

1. conform to an incoming url that has uppercase characters in it.
2. using uppercase is better for SEO some say.

This is a core edit that could be overwritten on the next Joomla update.

Backup first.

The file to edit is:

libraries/joomla/filter/filterout.php

$str = trim($str);

Perhaps a better way to handle this would be to force all incoming urls to be lowercase using htaccess (along with RewriteMap or possibly mod_speling), but on a shared server this may not be possible.