Keeping source language node path for translations

That won't happen in pathauto.

That probably belongs on token module itself or in localization module.

If you are getting a lot of "weird" characters in the URL, I suggest trying the transliteration module. I imagine those are just non ASCII128 characters.

Hi erikjohansson,

Have you get pathauto to generate URLs like those you wrote here:

site.com/something/page-name/
site.com/se/something/page-name/

When I set a node language to the default language, I do get URLs like

site.com/something/page-name/

but when I am looking at the same page but in a different language, instead of getting

site.com/se/something/page-name/

I get

site.com/se/node/page-name/

Would you mind sharing with me how you get yours to work?

Many thanks!!

BB

I had to do this as well. I wrote a new token for the url_alias to use. I should note this was for Drupal 6. Here is my code for that:

/**
 * Implementation of hook_token_list
 */
function MODULENAME_token_list($type){
  if ($type == 'node' || $type == 'all') {
    $tokens['user']['default-language-path'] = 'The url path of the node this node was translated from.';
  }
  return $tokens;
}

/**
 * Implementation of hook_token_values
 */
function MODULENAME_token_values($type, $object = NULL, $options = array()) {
  $tokens = array();
  if ($type == 'node' || $type == 'all') {
    $node = $object;
    $tokens['default-language-path'] = MODULENAME_get_default_language_path($node->nid);
  }
  return $tokens;

}

/**
 * gets path of node this node was translated from
 * if this is the source node, it just returns the path alias
 */
function MODULENAME_get_default_language_path($nid){
  $node = node_load($nid);
  $tnid = $node->tnid;
  if(!empty($tnid) && $tnid != $node->nid){
    $source_node = node_load($tnid);
    $path = $source_node->path;
  }else{
    $path = drupal_get_path_alias('node/' . $nid);
  }
  return $path;
}

I don't know if it could help some how, but with DRUPAL 6.1 this works. Maybe could help for inspiration.

This token should be available in Drupal 7 with [node:source:url:alias].

Please explain how to use this [node:source:url:alias].

I have "Pattern for all CV paths" (CV - is content type) as:
job/[current-user:profile-jobseeker:user:uid]/cv/[node:source:url:alias]

so when viewing the node in English I get this URL:
http://www.paris9.kz/emploi/job/1/cv

I want to have URL with "fr/" prefix for French smth like:
http://www.paris9.kz/emploi/fr/job/1/cv

but I get simply:
http://www.paris9.kz/emploi/fr/node/293/

if I tap URL manually "http://www.paris9.kz/emploi/fr/job/1/cv" then it's "Page not found".

I tried to run "update URL aliases", "update automatic nodetitles", but it didn't help.

what is the problem? should I change "Pattern for all CV paths" otherwise?

The token will only work if you are using the core Locale and Content Translation modules. When you translate a node from one language (let's say English) to French using the built-in translation UI, the token [node:source:url:alias] of the French node will return 'the-alias/of-my-english-node'.

Please do not continue to re-open long-fixed issues. Please file new support requests for any issues you have.

The [node:source:url:alias] does not work. Here are the steps to reproduce the problem.

1. brand new drupal site, with Locale and Content Translation enabled.
2. edit "Url alias" in admin/config/search/path/patterns
3. set "Default path pattern for Article (applies to all Article content types with blank patterns below)"
[node:title]
4. Fill in "article" paths and leave blank for "English Article" (which is the source of everything)
[node:source:url:alias]
5. go to create new article in "English" with title
New Article in english
6. save and edit again, the automatic url now is
new-article-english
7. now click on "translate" tab, it says
English (source) New Article in english
8. click "add translation" for one other language, say "Chinese Traditional", using title
New Article in chinese traditional
9. save it and now I expect the automatic alias filled in with
new-article-english
10. but it actually is
node/12

would anyone please suggest anything I missed?

I seem to be having the exact same problem. The aliases only work for the default language, even though I have configured the language specific pattern. When manually typed it says the page cannot be found, meaning that this alias is broken or nonexistent. I assume many drupal 7 pathauto+internationalization users have this problem. Does anyone know where it comes from and how it can be fixed?

Replying to #7: [node:source:url:alias] does not exist (any more?) in D7, only [node:source:url] and [node:source:url:unaliased]. Both don't work for me, but [node:source:title] is useful.

[node:source:url:path] should work for you.

Re-closing.

In case someone needs to do this in Drupal 7 (and since it lacks [node:source:url:alias]), I used the Custom Tokens module with the following PHP.

$path = '';
$tnid = $data['node']->tnid;
if (!empty($tnid) && $tnid != $data['node']->nid) {
  $source_node = node_load($tnid);
  $path = drupal_get_path_alias('node/' . $source_node->nid, $source_node->language);
}
return $path;

Not sure if people are still having this issue. I found that [node:source:url:path] does not, in fact, work. Instead I built a custom module, given that #18 was contingent on the Custom Tokens module being installed -- I did not want to go this route bc it was too impactful on the database.

The module code is :

<?php
/**
* @file
*custom_token module
*
* Provides a token to reference the url in the English language
*/
/**
* Implementation of hook_help()
*/
function MODULE_NAME_token_help($path, $arg) {
if ($path == 'admin/help#hid_custom_token') {
$txt = 'Provides a token to reference the url in the English language.';
return '

'. t($txt) .'

';
} // if help
} // function hid_custom_token_help
/**
* Implementation of hook_token_info
*/
function MODULE_NAME_token_token_info(){
$info['tokens']['node']['english-language-path'] = array(
'name' => t('HID Custom URL path alias'),
'description' => t('Token used to set URL path alias in English for regional languages.'),
);
return $info;
} // function hid_custom_token_token_info
/**
* Implementation of hook_tokens
*/
function MODULE_NAME_tokens($type, $tokens, array $data = array(), array $options = array()) {
if (isset($tokens['english-language-path'])) {
$tnid = $data['node']->tnid;
if (!empty($tnid)) {
$translations = translation_node_get_translations($tnid);
if (!empty($translations['en'])) {
$path = drupal_get_path_alias('node/' . $translations['en']->nid, 'en');
return array('[node:english-language-path]' => $path);
} // if has english translation
} // if has source node info
} // if right token is set
} // function hid_custom_token_tokens

It should also be said that once this token is implemented it will take the ENGLISH URL path.
Hope this helps someone, this is the only thing that seemed to work for my particular site.

Thanks for melissa.mcw's solution. It works on my site.

However, there is a small error said "Undefined index: node" and "Trying to get property of non-object". The module seems call the data variable twice, and the variable is different in each time. Not sure if it is the problem of my own. Hope some one can give an idea.

Thanks!

This appears still broken. #12 is exactly how you can reproduce this bug.

Will dive deeper through the debugger, but this is our steps:

First, configure the url aliases:
Default path pattern for Page (applies to all Page content types with blank patterns below) : "" (none, we customize each one)
"Pattern for all Catalan Page paths" : [node:source:url:path]

Next add content:
node/add/page, creating the source node.
add 'drupal-8.0' as the url alias for the source node (english)
save page. (Node id: 1234569)
Alias is: http://drupal.org/drupal-8.0

Next add translation
from the source node page just created:
-> add translation -> catalan
-> make sure automatic alias is checked (default)
-> Save page. The catalan page as Node id: 1234571
But the alias is: http://drupal.org/ca/node/1234569
=> It should be http://drupal.org/ca/drupal-8.0

This is still broken..!! :(

This works -> [node:source:title]

#23 works! Gracias, Jorge!