Spaces prefixes paths of menus not related to the space

This is a problem. I'm struggling to find a way back to the main page without doing an absolute path.

Hi, this is a problem for me as well.
Would be great if this was possible.
(e.g. the home link in the header-logo should link to the main page, not a og-space)

This is high on my list.

There is currently an API for disabling prefix rewriting (read: you need to code) -- you add $options['purl']['disabled'] = TRUE to the options array for any calls to l() or url().

I will look at adding a checkbox or option in the admin/build/menu interface for disabling specific menu items from getting path rewriting.

hi yh,

it would be lovely to have anything of the like "disable URL rewrite" within the menu as an additional functionality in order to have switching of spaces being much easier. I am trying to setup a community site for engineers without borders germany as a non-specialist/volunteer. spaces in combination with features/context is very much the thing I was looking for, but swapping spaces has given me a headache so far. I just do not get my head around it.

anyhow thanks for all this interesting work.

best wishes from germany

sebastian

Dear all,

I have tried to trace back the URL rewrite topic to the database entries within the menu system. I have created a test page with a menu entry. Afterwards I traced the menu entry in the database. There is an options field which has the following entries:

a:1:{s:10:"attributes";a:1:{s:5:"title";s:8:"Testpage";}}

I translate this into
a:1 -> array of the length 1
s:10 -> string of the length 10
and so forth.

Thus the entries form an array structure. My question now is whether I can manually add the mentioned $options['purl']['disabled'] = TRUE to the options field. If so, maybe somebody can tell me how I would do that using a field as seen above.

Just trying to make my way.

Best wishes

Sebastian

Hi all,

I've resolved this issue as part of purl. A couple of patches submitted yesterday and today added a UI to manipulate the purl=disabled flag in the menu system, as Sebastian identified above. The fixes aren't in a tag yet, but should be soon.

Two UI's are added, one to control behavior menu wide. like this -> http://img.skitch.com/20090626-nbb9y858x6byc51dfixhwdeuef.jpg

One to control rewriting for an individual menu item, like this -> http://img.skitch.com/20090626-ptpygdkr7rqmxukfnw2nnt3w11.jpg

The fixes aren't in a tag yet, but should be soon.

Lies. http://drupal.org/node/503124

I have reopened this issue as I have the same problem as 2: How to exclude the home link in the header / logo from a purl rewrite (points to current space "home" rather than site home).

From #3 I understand I could call the Purl API to do this. If someone can point me in the right direction I'll gladly do so?!

Many thanks,

Michael.

MichaelP: Please read comment #3.

Thanks for pointing that out Young.

For anyone else as daft as me, to avoid rewriting the logo / front page url, in my template.php file I created the hook_preprocess_page with the following

function mytemplate_preprocess_page(&$vars){
 // Avoid purl rewrite of <front>
 $vars['front_page'] = url(null, array('purl' => array('disabled' => TRUE),)); 
}

Thanks for this, I had the same problem, and this solved it.

I'm not sure if I should start a new thread for this point, so apologies if this isn't the drupal.org way!

I wonder if there is still a problem because this behaviour is not clear to users, and I ended up opening a new thread because I could not find the solution. I therefore think we could improve the settings or instructions to help users understand this better.

I suspect that for most users of the Spaces module, they will configure the menus so that the PURL context is maintained for the features menu, and disabled for all others. Any other settings will tend to make a site that feels broken, or else would need significant customisation to make them make sense. I would therefore suggest that the defaults for the items in menus be set as I just described:

• Features: PURL > maintain
• Other menus: PURL > discard

What do you think?

ok - I'm guessing you're not meant to add comments to closed issues, so I've posted this thought as a new issue