Mission does not get displayed if it is a path alias [#17291]

When path aliases are used for nodes, and the theme is told to display the mission statement, the mission will not display if the home page in /admin/settings is set to an alias.

To reproduce this do the following:

1. Go to /admin/modules and enable the path module, if not already enabled
2. Create a node of type page, and enter an alias for it (e.g. home.html)
3. Go to /admin/settings and set the Drupal default front page to be home.html
4. Go to admin/themes and select Pushbutton (or any theme using xtemplate engine), make it the default
5 Go to /admin/themes/settings and enable Mission statement

Now go to the home page of your site, and you will NOT see the mission displayed.

Some debugging shows that the culprit is this section of code in /themes/engines/xtemplate/xtemplate.engine:

  if ($_GET["q"] == variable_get("site_frontpage", "node") && theme_get_setting('toggle_mission') && ($mission = theme_get_setting('mission'))) {
    $xtemplate->template->assign("mission", $mission);
    $xtemplate->template->parse("header.mission");
  }

The problem is $_GET["q"] stores "node/1" and not "home.html", so the above condition is never met, and the mission does not get displayed.

The workaround is to put in /admin/settings the drupal node path (e.g. node/1) instead of home.html, the mission will be displayed then.

Comment	File	Size	Author
#8	mission.patch	460 bytes	budda
#4	phptemplate.diff	685 bytes	kuba.zygmunt

Comments

Comment #1

killes@www.drop.org commented 11 June 2005 at 21:53

xtemplate is no longer part of core.

Comment #2

kbahey commented 12 June 2005 at 02:01

The problem still occurs on phptemplate themes (e.g. Pushbutton) under 4.6.

Comment #3

eferraiuolo commented 22 June 2005 at 18:09

I also have run into this problem but from a different angle. I tried using taxonomy terms to be displayed on the front page along with the mission statement; I can get this to work, but not without getting an error/warning. So I tried creating an URL alias for my taxonomy terms url, but then the mission statment wasn't being displayed as you pointed out!

Example:
I set Administer >> Settings >> Default front page to:
taxonomy/term/15,7

Also Mission Statement is toggled on under Administer >> Themes and the result was what I was after; the front page displaying the mission statement along with all content tagged with Term 15 & Term 7. But I also got something I didn't want, a Warning/Error:
warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Unknown modifier 't' in /home/ewebportals/web/public/schoolcraft/modules/block.module on line 474.

To Fix the Error I did:
I created an URL Alias in Administer >> URL Aliases
System Path: taxonomy/term/15,7
Alias Path: everyone/common

I then replaced taxonomy/term/15,7 (my default front page URL) to everyone/common; but the error was still present, and I lost my mission statement.

Finally I edited my URL Alias from everyone/common to everyone_common; this got rid of the error, but still my mission statement wasn't being displayed.

My Debug Trace:
I tried to track down my error and ended up the same place you did, but my theme is using PHPTemplate Engine; so I tracked the bug to file:

themes/engines/phptemplate.engine:

if ($_GET['q'] == variable_get('site_frontpage', 'node')) {
    $mission = theme_get_setting('mission');
    $frontpage = true;
  }

Comment #4

kuba.zygmunt commented 23 June 2005 at 12:33

Status	File	Size
new	phptemplate.diff	685 bytes

To solve this in phptemplate I check if in database exists alias for main page(table {url_alias} ) and then check if ( ($_GET['q'] == variable_get('site_frontpage', 'node')) || ($_GET['q'] == $alias->src ) )