Custom arbitrary links (used in views)

Ahhhhh, sorry about the rookie mistake. I had tried the custom module, but mistakenly pasted the entire absolute URL, including the domain, and got the error message: "The custom link [big link with domain] is either invalid or it cannot be accessed by anonymous users.". I doubt many others will make the same mistake, since on second glance it's quite clear what to do, but perhaps, if you have spare time for very minor details, the error checking could look for this mistake since it's quite natural to copy and paste the entire URL.

Thank you very much for rewriting this module. Even with the "unstable" version I've been VERY happy with it, and I'm especially pleased about this custom URL feature.

I think this comment: http://drupal.org/node/499670#comment-1761566

combined with this module (currently in dev): http://drupal.org/project/views_build_menu

could provide a clean solution for this issue, but in the meantime, for the bold (and careless?) hackers, here's a solution that sort of works for my specific scenario. I want to include nodes that are returned by a view. The content type must be excluded from the xmlsitemap by default, so the following is to avoid clicking on the sitemap include option on each node edit page.

Using http://drupal.org/project/views_bonus I exported a list of node id's in csv format. Using phpmyadmin, import this into a new table (called get_these in this example) which has a column of type integer (called nid). With the xmlsitemap table selected, choose the SQL tab, and paste the following code:

UPDATE xmlsitemap,get_these SET xmlsitemap.status='1',xmlsitemap.status_override='1'
WHERE xmlsitemap.id=get_these.nid

This works only if the content type was previously included by default, with a subsequent cron run in order to put them into the xmlsitemap table, and then disabled, followed by cron, which, instead of deleting them from the table, sets the status and status_override values to 0. Furthermore, after running the SQL above successfully, the sitemap needs to be rebuilt at /admin/settings/xmlsitemap/rebuild since a mere cron run will not pick up the new entries.

I can't wait for a better way of doing this! =)

As another approach, I've tried creating a module that uses the xmlsitemap_custom module, and views. It works until it encounters a form validation error (such as when a node already exists in the sitemap). Would someone care to help solving this issue? I think the module should work if drupal_execute() could keep processing beyond when it encounters the validation error. The dpm() in here shows that the code loops through all nodes returned by the view, but drupal_execute() doesn't process after an error.

xml_views.info:

; $Id$
name = xml_views
description = Add links from a View to the XML Sitemap
core = 6.x

xml_views.module:

<?php

/**
 * Implementation of hook_menu()
 * 
 * Hook menu registers page callbacks with Drupal's central menu system
 */
 
function xml_views_menu() {
  $items = array();
  
  $items['admin/settings/xml_views'] = array(
    'title' => 'xml_views settings',
    'description' => 'Configuration options for the xml_views module',
    'page callback' => 'xml_views_admin_settings',
    'access callback' => 'user_access',
    'access arguments' => array('administer site configuration')
  );
  
  return $items;
}

/**
 * Page callback for admin settings
 */
function xml_views_admin_settings() {
  return drupal_get_form('xml_views_settings_form');
}

/**
 * Function that creates the admin/settings/xml_views form
 */
function xml_views_settings_form() {
  $form = array();
  
  $form['view_name'] = array(
    '#type' => 'textfield',
    '#title' => t('view_name'),
    '#description' => t('Enter the name of the view that loads all the nodes 
       which should be included in the xml sitemap. The default display 
       will be used.'),
    '#required' => TRUE
  );
  
  $form['submit'] = array(
    '#type' => 'submit',
    '#value' => 'Save settings'
  );
  return $form;
}

/**
 * submit function for admin/settings/xml_views form
 */
function xml_views_settings_form_submit(&$form, &$form_state) {
  // Load xmlsitemap_custom.admin.inc
  module_load_include('inc', 'xmlsitemap_custom', 'xmlsitemap_custom.admin');

  $view_name = $form_state['values']['view_name'];
  $view_result = array();
  $view_result = views_get_view_result($view_name);
  foreach($view_result as $item){
    $form_state = array();
    $form_state['values']['loc'] = drupal_get_path_alias('node/' . $item->nid);
    dpm($form_state['values']['loc']);
    drupal_execute('xmlsitemap_custom_edit_link_form', $form_state);
  }
}