By danieltnbaker on

I am aware that within 'Site building -> URL aliases -> Automated alias settings -> Node paths' you can create a path pattern for your content type.

Can you do this programmatically?

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msathesh’s picture

msathesh commented

Why do you want to do that programatically when you can do the same thing in the user interface?

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danieltnbaker commented

It will be initiated from a custom module install on many sites, many times a day. It will reduce overhead changing the same setting with the same values for every site if I can do it programmatically.

Any ideas?

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msathesh commented

I hope you write a module to interact with the table called 'variable' with column 'name' and it's values like 'pathauto_node_*_pattern'. Where * represents node type, for example, for page node type it's stored in 'pathauto_node_page_pattern'. Hope it helps.

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danieltnbaker commented

Thanks msathesh, worked like a treat. I created my content types and then used variable_set to apply my autopath patterns.

Again, thank you

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msathesh commented

glad that I could help.. thanks @daniel

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eddie_c commented

Here's some code I'm using with msathesh's solution. I've put my content type names and path aliases in an array which I then loop through, setting up each alias in the variable table. Thanks msathesh.


    //Array of content types and aliases we want to update in the form content_type_machine_name => alias
    $node_aliases = array (
	   'policy' => 'policy/[title-raw]',
	   'working_paper' => 'workingpaper/[title-raw]',
	   'presentation' => 'presentation/[title-raw]',
	   'rapid_response' => 'rapidresponse/[title-raw]'
	  );
    
    //Loop through each item in the array and create a variable for it.
    foreach($node_aliases as $type => $alias) {
	$varname = 'pathauto_node_'.$type.'_pattern';
	variable_set($varname, $alias);
	$types[] = $type;
    }
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ain commented

Hey thanks for the discussion guys, helped me to find an answer to my own Stackoverflow question: How to change Automated alias settings on module install?