Taxonomy terms instead of IDs in the URL

By gargsuchi on 20 Jul 2006 at 14:14 UTC

Is it possible to have the taxonomy term name instead of the taxonomy term ID in the URLs?
Basically what i am saying is that I have a term Delhi - with ID - 6.
Now the URL to this term is
http://www.myserver.com/taxonomy/term/6

can we do something to make it

http://www.myserver.com/taxonomy/term/Delhi

I need this to include RSS feeds from Drupal into other parts of my website - but naturally hte other parts of the site do not know the term ID - they know just the term.

TIA

Comments

You should enable (or

TheWhippinpost commented 20 July 2006 at 14:25

You should enable (or install if you don't already have it) the path module which allows you to rename (or alias) URL paths.

You might also want to have a look at the pathauto module for automation of this task.

Mike

That's a possible workaround

dman commented 20 July 2006 at 15:17

But filling up the aliases table (manually yet) seems to make a lot less sense than just
Indexing things by name.
Dries disagrees, but I think the pros outweigh the con.

It would have been trivial for taxonomy to parse_int(arg(1)) then taxonomy_get_term_by_name() if asked for a string.
I'll make one of them next time I'm playing with taxonomy.

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