By ecksley on

I would like to get the raw URLs of the nodes collected in my Views query. I can't seem to find a Field that is devoted to this purpose.

Yes, there is a node link field, but I need the raw URL itself to pass it into a multimedia piece.

Yes, I can grab the nid and scrap together a working URL but I would much rather use the URL alias.

Is there:
1) some sort of a Drupal function that will output a URL alias if I pass it the NID?
2) a field I'm just not seeing withing the Views Fields that will yield the URL alias?

Thanks so much for your time!

Edited by WorldFallz - moved to appropriate forum.

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

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WorldFallz commented

you could probably get this working by using drupal_get_path_alias in a http://drupal.org/project/views_customfield.

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ecksley commented

Thank you!

I am using a tpl.php to theme the View so I just inserted the function call in the markup... didn't even need the customField module, although it's great to know it exists.

For anyone else using a tpl.php the code I used to grab to correct alias looked like the following:

$targetPath = "node/";
$targetPath .= $row->nid;
$targetPath = 'http://'.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].base_path().drupal_get_path_alias($targetPath, $path_language = '');

Sorry I posted in the wrong forum. I just thought this was theming related.

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estone commented

Thanks Ecksley, i needed just that to do something similar...

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jared12 commented

Good info! Thanks.

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machinez commented

In case someone does want to output url_alias in views using customfield php

$targetPath = "node/";
$targetPath .= $data->nid;
$targetPath = 'http://'.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].base_path().drupal_get_path_alias($targetPath, $path_language = '');
print $targetPath;

Great from Google Merchant and Ubercart product nodes.

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lolandese commented

Thanks. I used this piece of code to generate a FB share button that points to the intended node for each displayed node in the view. See here.

https://www.martin.postma.website/

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visuallemon commented

Hi, im using this code on my custom field:php code in my view. but it doesn't get language of the node. what it gets its just node path alias. any advice on this one would be highly appreciated

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solipsist commented

You can simplify your code considerably by using Drupal's API more:

print url('node/'. $data->nid, array('absolute' => TRUE));

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carl.brown commented

I came accross this answer and it does exactly what I wanted in a very succinct way, but for some reason it doesn't work - unless I use 'print' twice! - Any idea why this might be? If I write this in my page.tpl.php:

<?php
print url('node/'. $data->nid, array('absolute' => TRUE));
?>

I get no output, but if i write this:

<?php
print print url('node/'. $data->nid, array('absolute' => TRUE));
?>

Then I get the raw node ID?

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chike
Primary language English
Location Nigeria
commented

Thank you so much, this worked for me.

- Nigerian web designers

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bwoods commented

I was looking for the same thing. Thanks!

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Murz
Primary language English
Location Yerevan, Armenia
commented

In views 3.x you can use "Path" field with option "Use absolute path" in Rewrite field group.

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rpai commented

This is what I needed.

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pal4life commented

Weird for me even in Views 3.x using with Services, the Path does not fill up.

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zeroyon commented

prints the complete url with correct alias

<?php
$targetPath = drupal_lookup_path('alias',"node/".$node->nid);
$targetPath .= $data->nid;
$targetPath = 'http://'.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].base_path().drupal_get_path_alias($targetPath, $path_language = '');
print $targetPath;
?>