How to renew / regenerate pagenames for all pages?

[sebibu]

I discovered a bug in the pagename generation, see here:
https://processwire.com/talk/topic/30444-prepend-date-in-page-name-by-hook-creates-improper-results-on-some-existing-pages/

If there is a final fix, I need to renew / regenerate pagenames out of all pagetitles for all pages of a website.
How would you do this?
Is there a GUI-way? Or via API with a foreach? With the help of RockMigrations?

One pinch: All news pagenames should still be prepended with my hook listed in the forum topic above.

Thanks in advance!

[bernhard]

The hook in the linked thread fires on saveReady, so all you need should be a

foreach($pages->find(...) as $p) {
  $p->save();
  echo "Page #$p updated to {$p->name}<br>";
}

If you are not dealing with a lot of pages I'd use TracyDebugger's console for that.

[sebibu]

A very good hint to use TracyDebugger's console for that, @bernhard!

Unfortunately in my tests the pagename is not renewed (or new set if empty) out of the pagetitle!

foreach($pages->find("template!=admin, has_parent!=2, include=all") as $p) {
  $p->save();
  echo "Page {$page->title} (#$p) updated to {$p->name}<br>";
}

Any idea?👋

[bernhard]

First thing to check is if your hook gets executed. For that put this at the very top of your hook:

d('fired');

You should see these dumps in the console output when you foreach() and save()

If you don't see it, your hook does not get triggered, which means you found the reason why the page name does not update.

[sebibu]

Thanks @bernhard! After shutting down the pc yesterday I got the cause.
All pages without news template do not have a saveReady-hook.
So for renewing pagenames on pages with other templates I simply have to temporarily create a new hook to set the pagename for other templates, too.
Without the prepended news-published-day. Seems to work!☺️🙏🙋‍♂️