path alias parts

By aspafford on 11 Dec 2008 at 19:31 UTC

Is there a function for returning the parts of an aliased path? I'm looking for something equivalent to the arg() function.

I've been using something like this:

$path_parts = explode('/', drupal_get_path_alias($_GET['q']));

but this would return an empty array if there were just a single part, ie. http://localhost/about

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WorldFallz commented 11 December 2008 at 20:28

afaik, it should still work.... try this to see:

print_r(explode('/','about'));

You should get:

Array ( [0] => about )

Edit: I made my own alias version (aarg) of the drupal api arg function:

<?php
function aarg($index = NULL, $path = NULL) {
  if (!isset($path)) {
    $path = drupal_get_path_alias($_GET['q']);
  }
  if (!isset($arguments[$path])) {
    $arguments[$path] = explode('/', $path);
  }
  if (!isset($index)) {
    return $arguments[$path];
  }
  if (isset($arguments[$path][$index])) {
    return $arguments[$path][$index];
  }
}
?>

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