saving profile removes blog url aliases

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.

I'm on drupal 6.10 with pathauth 6.x-1.1 and was having the problem described at the top. I tried to apply the patch, but the pathauto.module file has changed a lot since the patch (was at least 700 lines, now less than 500).

In my case, the code to create a user-friendly blog url (i.e. /blog/joe instead of /blog/101) was in the update operation. So every time I updated a user, it was clearing out the blog alias. I just moved the blog alias portion of the code to the insert operation and it appears to work fine now. I'd appreciate if anyone can comment on this or give me direction if I'm posting this in the wrong place.

function pathauto_user($op, &$edit, &$user, $category = FALSE) {
_pathauto_include();
switch ($op) {
case 'insert':
// Use the username to automatically create an alias
$pathauto_user = (object) array_merge((array) $user, $edit);
if ($user->name) {
$placeholders = pathauto_get_placeholders('user', $pathauto_user);
if (module_exists('blog')) {
$new_user = $user;
if ($category == 'account') {
$new_user->roles = isset($edit['roles']) ? $edit['roles'] : array();
$new_user->roles[DRUPAL_AUTHENTICATED_RID] = 'authenticated user'; // Add this back
}
if (user_access('create blog entries', $new_user)) {
$src = 'blog/'. $user->uid;
$alias = pathauto_create_alias('blog', $op, $placeholders, $src, $user->uid);
}
else {
path_set_alias('blog/'. $user->uid);
path_set_alias('blog/'. $user->uid .'/feed');
}
}
}
break;

case 'update':
// Use the username to automatically create an alias
$pathauto_user = (object) array_merge((array) $user, $edit);
if ($user->name) {
$placeholders = pathauto_get_placeholders('user', $pathauto_user);
$src = 'user/'. $user->uid;
$alias = pathauto_create_alias('user', $op, $placeholders, $src, $user->uid);
/*
**** I MOVED THIS BLOCK UP TO THE INSERT OPERATION *********
if (module_exists('blog')) {
$new_user = $user;
if ($category == 'account') {
$new_user->roles = isset($edit['roles']) ? $edit['roles'] : array();
$new_user->roles[DRUPAL_AUTHENTICATED_RID] = 'authenticated user'; // Add this back
}
if (user_access('create blog entries', $new_user)) {
$src = 'blog/'. $user->uid;
$alias = pathauto_create_alias('blog', $op, $placeholders, $src, $user->uid);
}
else {
path_set_alias('blog/'. $user->uid);
path_set_alias('blog/'. $user->uid .'/feed');
}
}
*/
if (module_exists('tracker')) {
$src = 'user/'. $user->uid .'/track';
$alias = pathauto_create_alias('tracker', $op, $placeholders, $src, $user->uid);
}
}

break;
case 'delete':
// If the user is deleted, remove the path aliases
$user = (object) $user;
path_set_alias('user/'. $user->uid);

// They may have enabled these modules and/or feeds when the user was created, so let's try to delete all of them
path_set_alias('blog/'. $user->uid);
path_set_alias('blog/'. $user->uid .'/feed');
path_set_alias('user/'. $user->uid .'/track');
path_set_alias('user/'. $user->uid .'/track/feed');
break;
default:
break;
}
}