url alias and argument passing

Posted by ovgray on January 3, 2007 at 4:58am

I'm new to drupal. I have I have 5.0-rc1 installed as 'http://drupalsite.tld' (not its real name). The Path module is active. Clean urls are enabled.

I have created a page 'node/9' with 'members' as its alias. I can see the page both at 'http://mysite.tld/node/9' and at 'http://mysite.tld/members'.

I want to pass a parameter to this page in its url.

If I point my browser at 'http://mysite.tld/node/9/138' the 'node/9' aka 'members' page is displayed (I have not yet modified the page to use the parameter).

If I point my browser at 'http://mysite.tld/members/138', however, I get 'Page not found'.

From what I've read I thought the way drupal works is that if I try to access 'http://drupalsite.tld/a/b/c' and there is no page named 'a/b/c', drupal will look for a page named 'a/b'. It's doing that with 'node/9/138' (goes to 'node/9') but not with 'members/138' (doesn't go to 'members').

What am I missing?

Comments

path ... members/138',

Posted by rup3rt on January 3, 2007 at 10:02am

> path ... members/138', however, I get 'Page not found'.

You have to manually give a url path for every node.

This can be automated by modules like: Category (4.7), EasyFilter (5.x)

You can also integrate with breadcrumbs (Custom Breadcrumbs) and menus (Advanced menu item settings 4.7) or everything together (Category module)

Localizer module will do language based url paths

They are working on the update to category module for Drupal 5 at http://drupal.org/node/85239

So I need to write a module?

Posted by ovgray on January 3, 2007 at 8:56pm

So to get this to work it appears I would have to write a module that responds to the path 'members' and write a menu hook that handles the added parameter ('138' or whatever)?

Without a hook, members/138

Posted by rup3rt on January 4, 2007 at 11:35am

Without a hook, members/138 returns not found. With a hook, they go to the default for the traceable root. node/9/eat/my/shorts goes to node/9.

You could write a module if you want. Here is a Drupal 5 example of a similar menu hook:
http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/contributions/modules/biblio/biblio...
There are repeatable examples in modules of the "review" type too.

CCK, category module and other mods provide a similar learning curve and maybe greater functionality over the same time period. Of course they also provide quicker rollout, easier taxonomy integration and tuned performance.

Thanks

Posted by ovgray on January 7, 2007 at 12:55am

I have a lot to learn. Thanks for the advice.