Pathauto creates the same alias for two nodes if the second has punctuation which gets removed [#978032]

Hallo pathauto dev team,

I faced recently a quite serious mistake – pathauto creats the aliases to the already existing nodes. The mistake appears when there is the node having for example a name “kaktus” (nid = 123). If somebody tries to add new node calling “kaktus :)” (nid = 234) then the pathauto logic will remove “ :)” and try to create an alias that points to nid = 123. This is wrong, because the correct nid = 234.

In my conversion rules the module removes spaces, “:” and “)” signs.

In my case the right pathauto behavior would be to add at the end of alias digit 1, e.g. “kaktus1”.

Thank you in advance,
Siegfrid

Comments

Comment #1

dave reid

he/him

English

Nebraska USA

commented 21 November 2010 at 18:47

Status:

Needs review

» Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

That's what it should be doing and has been doing for a while.

Comment #2

Siegfrid commented 23 November 2010 at 05:28

The conversion is working only for nodes having the same name, e.g. "kaktus" and nid = 123..128. Then each node will get it's own alias. But in my case user tries to add a new node having particular same name, i.e. "kaktus :)" nid = 234, and seems that conversion logic does not check after preprocessing (removing special signs) whether there is such alias or not for the new processed name - "kaktus" and nid = 234.

Hope I have clearly explained my case :)