Issue status update for http://drupal.org/node/24321 Project: Drupal Version: cvs Component: path.module Category: feature requests Priority: normal Assigned to: Anonymous Reported by: mikeryan Updated by: ramdak5000 Status: patch Thanks for anwering my question. Ramdak ramdak5000 Previous comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ June 5, 2005 - 07:14 : mikeryan Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/alias_0.patch (6.63 KB) Here's a patch to implement 2/3 of my previous suggestions [1]. 1. A *status* column is added to the url_alias table. A 0 (zero) value indicates an alias explicitly created by a user or administrator; a 1 (one) value indicates an alias created by an automated process. No core code support is required here - aliases created by core methods (the node form or url aliases settings) will default to 0. The pathauto module (or any other module that wishes to automatically generate aliases) will create them with a status of 1, and when updating aliases will only delete/modify aliases with a status of 1, so that aliases created explicitly by users are not blown away. 2. A *weight* column is added to the url_alias table. As path aliasing exists now, multiple aliases may be created for a given path but there is no control over which one is generated in the outgoing direction (as in listings). This patch adds the support for editing weights for aliases to the url aliases settings (and both *status* and *weight* become optional arguments to path_set_alias()), and drupal_lookup_path() is modified to pick the lowest weighted alias in response to an 'alias' call (if there's a tie for lowest weight, it's the same result as before, which is most likely lowest pid === first created). I really wanted to implement a method for having aliases that produce a 301 (Move Permanently) response, particularly if you want to change the alias for a page without abandoning any bookmarks/search engine links that are already out there - but I started on it and realized it will require more thought to integrate cleanly... It might just be easier to do that using conf_url_rewrite()... Thanks for your consideration... [1] http://drupal.org/node/22352 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ June 5, 2005 - 10:18 : ramdak5000 Can I apply this to pathauto-4.5? Thanks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ June 5, 2005 - 21:30 : mikeryan This is a proposed patch to core - if accepted, I wouldn't expect it to be available before Drupal 4.7. It's unlikely this patch would apply to Drupal 4.5 (although the path.module patch may very well work, and the small change to bootstrap.inc could easily be done manually). I will release a version of pathauto taking advantage of these changes only after they're accepted and committed to cvs. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ June 9, 2005 - 10:11 : moshe weitzman looks like a small, useful patch to me.