By tesla.nicoli on

I saw this code once a long time ago but can't find it now. I need to change the url with using pathaliasing from "/node/1234" to "page/1234" and "article/1234". I know it is a hack but I need it anyway.

TIA

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tesla.nicoli commented

correction -- "without using pathalias"

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tesla.nicoli commented

We have already imported all material to Drupal. But we do not want to create 15,000+ aliases to maintain the paths created from the previous two CMS . Which used the names "page" and "article".

Using path aliasing would not work anyway since we would probably need two aliases for each node in some instances.

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Arto commented

See Mass URL aliasing in the Handbook.

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carlmcdade commented

Untested but this should work. Put it in settings.php

// Example for Drupal 4.7.x and up
function custom_url_rewrite($type, $path, $original) {
  // This path was already aliased, skip rewriting it
  if ($path != $original) {
    return $path;
  }
	
	 if (arg(0) =="node" ) {
		$patterns[0] = '!^node/(\d+)$!';
		$replacements[0] = 'page/\1';
    return preg_replace($patterns, $replacements, $path);
  }
	
  if ($type == 'source') { // URL coming from a client
		$patterns[0] = '!^page/(\d+)$!';
		$patterns[1] = '!^article/(\d+)$!';
		
		$replacements[0] = 'node/\1';
		$replacements[1] = 'node/\1';
    return preg_replace($patterns, $replacements, $path);
  }
  elseif ($type == 'alias') { // URL going out to a client
    return preg_replace('!^node/(\d+)$!', 'display/\1', $path);
  }
}

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kubersluiper commented

I was following this thread and would like to clear up the following,

I have a static HTML website with about 1000 articles on there. I thought the only way to get all the articles on a drupal run site was to copy and paste. But after reading this I now wonder if it could be done more automatically.

Would this setting be of any help to me?

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sepeck commented

Tools
http://drupal.org/project/import_html

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dakku commented

I wanted to try something similar (see http://drupal.org/node/103061), but in my case I wanted:

domain.com/foobar1/mynode-1
domain.com/foobar2/mynode-1
domain.com/foobar3/mynode-1
domain.com/foobar4/mynode-1

would the code above work from a module with a menu_hook?

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carlmcdade commented

There have been some changes to 5.0 that are not readily visible. Many have tried to change using this but have recieved a lock out or page not found.

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tesla.nicoli commented

Hiveminds, It works! Thanks!

To the others. I am not sure if this would help for external files. In out case we have incoming links to the old material. The problem was those links would be bad because "page/xxx" would lead to a page not found.

To go to a sub-directory. I have no idea if that would work. The best bet is to do like me and set it up locally and try the code.