From 3632b936e9cce50f5370482717fe1c3603769ce6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: paul <paul-nothaft@hotmail.de>
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2025 22:41:05 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix: improve URL slug generation for special characters
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- Replace all non-alphanumeric characters with single dash
- Collapse multiple consecutive dashes into single dash
- Remove leading and trailing dashes
- Fixes issue where "Petra & Peter" became "petra---peter"
- Now generates cleaner URLs like "petra-peter" instead

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Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 backend/src/routes/adminEvents.js | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/backend/src/routes/adminEvents.js b/backend/src/routes/adminEvents.js
index dfc4b83..f23ee58 100644
--- a/backend/src/routes/adminEvents.js
+++ b/backend/src/routes/adminEvents.js
@@ -66,7 +66,12 @@ router.post('/', adminAuth, [
     }
     
     // Generate unique slug
-    const baseSlug = `${event_type}-${event_name.toLowerCase().replace(/[^a-z0-9]/g, '-')}-${event_date}`;
+    const processedEventName = event_name
+      .toLowerCase()
+      .replace(/[^a-z0-9]/g, '-') // Replace non-alphanumeric with dash
+      .replace(/-+/g, '-')         // Replace multiple dashes with single dash
+      .replace(/^-|-$/g, '');      // Remove leading/trailing dashes
+    const baseSlug = `${event_type}-${processedEventName}-${event_date}`;
     let slug = baseSlug;
     let counter = 1;