So I have a category page which loads 100 + items. These items represent pages and I thought it would be a good idea to allow the use to type a page number into an input box and then go directly to that item/page.

The problem I have is the URLs are like so:

/item/5847-page-1

So the ID number could be anything which makes it impossible to code this. Is it possible to stop the ID from being generated for these items so it appears like so:

/item/page-1

That way I can generate a link from their input.

Many thanks

You can use K2's advanced SEF settings to shape your URLs.
This setting is located under K2's parameters.

Is this recommended though? I have just noticed that if you copy over an item and forget to delete the url alias it will generate the same URL as the copied item.

If an ID is not present then you need to have different aliases so K2 can fetch the proper item. The same applies to categories.

I thought so. Just for my own sanity ... is there a way to query the k2 database to see if any items do have the same alias? Im pretty sure that wont be the case but my site has hundreds of items and I wouldnt mind double checking.

Thanks

You could try something like this snippets.khromov.se/check-if-column-in-mysql-table-has-duplicate-values/

or

stackoverflow.com/questions/688549/finding-duplicate-values-in-mysql

(table x_k2_items, column alias)

Thanks - very helpful.

Just one further question ... is there anyway to output the title alias in item.php ?

Try this snippet

Many thanks, Krikor

You 're welcome Ron.