Issue status update for http://drupal.org/node/21239 Project: Drupal Version: 4.6.0 Component: base system Category: feature requests Priority: normal Assigned to: Anonymous Reported by: aws Updated by: mikeryan Status: patch +1 I'd like to see the chain followed as well, so when an alias is replaced a "forwarding address" can be left. mikeryan Previous comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ April 24, 2005 - 17:20 : aws Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/includes_bootstrap.inc_0.patch (739 bytes) This is a small patch for function drupal_get_path_alias in bootstrap.inc. This allows a path to have a non-cyclic chain of aliases, and enables the path alias finder to walk up the chain to the top level alias. For example: taxonomy_menu/4/1/50 | topics/whats_new/events taxonomy/term/50 | taxonomy_menu/4/1/50 Now I can have all references to taxonomy/term/50 automatically point to the top-level alias, topics/whats_new/events. I am also posting a patch against Pathauto module which creates these multi-links automatically for categories when taxonomy_menu is present. (I will add followup with a link to that patch). Note that the inverse case (alias => path) is *not* necessary (in fact it would break the intention of this patch... --- There are several other ways to accomplish this; all of which are more involved. YMMV. I won't be insulted if this patch is rejected. :) An alternative solution would be to allow the destination column to accept non-unique entries. This would also require some sort of weighting otherwise the final resolution would be indefinate. A second alternative would be to have drupal generate taxonomy links in a more general manner, so that the taxonomy_menu module could change all the taxonomy links via the proper hooks. A *third* alternative would be to fix the menu system so that it does not require nested paths in the hiearchy, this way taxonomy_menu would not need to create its own paths. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ April 24, 2005 - 17:24 : aws Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/includes_bootstrap.inc_1.patch (739 bytes) Sorry, I ran that diff in the wrong direction... use this patch instead. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ April 24, 2005 - 17:31 : aws Here is the associated patch to pathauto: http://drupal.org/node/21241