[support] Creating duplicate content (on purpose)

[Andy Fowlston]

> One way I can think of doing it is creating a "master" node, along
> with 'blank' secondary nodes, and using hook_nodeapi to use the
> content from the master node when a secondary node is called. This
> seems slightly hacky. Is there a module that already does this?

I did something similar on a site, it worked, wasn't too hacky. I created a content type called cloned page, it had no body and a nodereference field to point to the page it's cloning. Then by setting the display of the reference you can get very close to the effect you want automatically. I think I might've needed to do a small bit of custom theming, not sure. It's important btw to set the canonical URL to avoid duplicate content penalties.

> can I use hook_menu_alter or something to add a second menu item that
> References the original?

For my use case my clients wanted to be able to add different banners to the different pages, and my banner system worked on nids so just playing with the menu wasn't an option (for me!). Also it would've meant that when you clicked on the 'cloned' menu item, the active menu trail would jump to be that of the 'master' menu item.

Cheers,

Andy

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From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On Behalf Of DTH
Sent: 10 March 2011 15:02
To: support at drupal.org
Subject: [support] Creating duplicate content (on purpose)

There's a some pages on a site where the content (and title etc) of
the node are identical, although the url (and it's place in the menu
system) are different. So for example Ideally I don't want to have to
copy and paste everytime the content is updated.

The main issue is having it in a second place on the menu tree:
creating an alias so that foo/item is an alias of bar/item, for
example, means that the bar menu is triggered at foo/item

One way I can think of doing it is creating a "master" node, along
with 'blank' secondary nodes, and using hook_nodeapi to use the
content from the master node when a secondary node is called. This
seems slightly hacky. Is there a module that already does this?

Alternatively, rather than creating the secondary nodes, can I use
hook_menu_alter or something to add a second menu item that references
the original?	
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