At the moment the url to the 'get locations' link is http://www.site.com/getdirections/location/to/209.
Is there a way to integrate with url aliases or some other way to change the url so it has the node title instead of the nid.
eg I want it to read http://www.shulopedia.com/getdirections/location/to/school.
Thanks

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hutch’s picture

hutch commented

Create an alias to suit:
path
getdirections/location/to/209
alias
getdirections/location/to/school

LTech’s picture

LTech commented

I can do that for a specific alias, but I want all getdirection links to read getdirections/location/to/[node:title].
Is there a way to create a pattern for getdirections? (like there is for content types and taxonomy etc)

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hutch commented

I'm not sure what you mean by 'pattern', but perhaps the Pathauto module will do that, I don't know, I haven't used it.
Bear in mind that the node Title cannot be guaranteed to be unique.

LTech’s picture

LTech commented

How did you mean to create an 'alias' in comment #1? Was that using the pathauto module?
I don't want the url to read /to/nid (number) it doesn't look so great for the users. Is there a way to put text in so it happens automatically for every node? I tried using pathauto but they don't have the option to set a fixed url pattern for 'getlocation', only content types, taxonomy and users.

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hutch commented

To create an Alias go to admin/config/search/path
I know what you want to do, there is no automatic way of doing that and there won't be because such a 'feature' would be too unreliable for the reason already stated: the node Title cannot be guaranteed to be unique
If Pathauto won't do it then perhaps Actions and Rules might be set up to automatically generate an alias but you will need to know what you are doing.