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At the moment you'll need to make a bit of an alteration to change the article URLs. This guide will change urls from:

http://www.example.com/articles/23/1/My-Example-Article/Page1.html

to

http://www.example.com/articles-23-1-My-Example-Article-Page1.html

To do this, open up /admin/includes/classes/class.helper.php and find the ArticleLink() function which looks like:

   

function ArticleLink($ArticleId, $ArticleTitle, $ArticlePage = 1) {
        if ($GLOBALS['AL_CFG']['useids'] == 1) {
            $link = sprintf("%s/%s/%d/%d/", $GLOBALS["AL_CFG"]["siteURL"], GetLang('urlArticles'),
                $ArticleId, $ArticlePage);
        } else {
            $suffix = sprintf("%s/%s%d.html", AL_HELPER::_MakeArticleURLSafe($ArticleTitle), AL_HELPER::_MakeArticleURLSafe(GetLang('artPage')), $ArticlePage);

            $link = sprintf("%s/%s/%d/%d/%s", $GLOBALS["AL_CFG"]["siteURL"], GetLang('urlArticles'), $ArticleId, $ArticlePage, $suffix);
        }
        return $link;
    }

and can change it to something like this (which changes the /'s to -'s in the URL so it looks like the article.html file is in the base folder)

    function ArticleLink($ArticleId, $ArticleTitle, $ArticlePage = 1) {
        if ($GLOBALS['AL_CFG']['useids'] == 1) {
            $link = sprintf("%s/%s/%d/%d/", $GLOBALS["AL_CFG"]["siteURL"], GetLang('urlArticles'),
                $ArticleId, $ArticlePage);
        } else {
            $suffix = sprintf("%s-%s%d.html", AL_HELPER::_MakeArticleURLSafe($ArticleTitle), AL_HELPER::_MakeArticleURLSafe(GetLang('artPage')), $ArticlePage);

            $link = sprintf("%s/%s-%d-%d-%s", $GLOBALS["AL_CFG"]["siteURL"], GetLang('urlArticles'), $ArticleId, $ArticlePage, $suffix);
        }
        return $link;
    }

Then open up /includes/classes/class.article.php and find:

$this->SetId($this->GetIdFromURL(GetLang('urlArticles')));

and on a new line *before* that, add this line:

$this->Delimiter = '-';

That should now work. If you want to remove 'Page1' from the URL, reedit the ArticleLink function in the class.helper.php file and change:

$suffix = sprintf("%s-%s%d.html",
AL_HELPER::_MakeArticleURLSafe($ArticleTitle),
AL_HELPER::_MakeArticleURLSafe(GetLang('artPage')), $ArticlePage);

to

$suffix = sprintf("%s.html",
AL_HELPER::_MakeArticleURLSafe($ArticleTitle));