Issue status update for http://drupal.org/node/29030 Post a follow up: http://drupal.org/project/comments/add/29030 Project: Drupal Version: cvs Component: base system Category: feature requests Priority: normal Assigned to: chx Reported by: chx Updated by: Jose A Reyero Status: patch (code needs review) Goba, yes, my idea was to provide a hook, so any module can mangle the path/query string. What will happen with that incoming paths is a different story, I mean any module can access the query string any time later... And I'd like this to be separated from path aliasing, which can be done in a different step... Ideally, of course, this would be done for outgoing and incoming urls, but there's a number of issues, like incoming path processing being done before module loading, in common.inc... Another issue, IMHO, is that current url handling is a bit messy and could be better streamlined. But the first patch was simple enough and quite straight forward, at least it works for *all* outgoing URLs, and allows to rewrite query strings, while the second one, I see much more limited use for it.... Jose A Reyero Previous comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wed, 17 Aug 2005 11:39:12 +0000 : chx Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/url_rewrite.patch (1.35 KB) I need a URL rewrite hook sometimes, here is an implementation, with ample comments. I looked into arg() to see whether it needs a reset parameter, and it does not, but it contained a minor bug, which is also fixed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wed, 17 Aug 2005 11:46:45 +0000 : chx Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/url_rewrite_0.patch (1.73 KB) Performance boost. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wed, 17 Aug 2005 11:48:51 +0000 : Jose A Reyero +1 This is really needed by i18n module, and maybe other modules could use it to add some extra information in the query string. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wed, 17 Aug 2005 11:50:16 +0000 : killes@www.drop.org this seems just an evil plot to cater for the evil hack that i18n.module is. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wed, 17 Aug 2005 11:57:23 +0000 : chx killes, while I know you do not like the current implementation of i18n, that module exists and even works. If you do not like the current approach, you can always write a better one. And also, please note we try to introduce non-i18n specific solutions this time. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wed, 17 Aug 2005 12:05:10 +0000 : killes@www.drop.org "it works" has never been a consideration in Drupal development, don't let us start to use it. I don't need an i18n module. Had I had the urge to write one, it would have been based on walkah's excellent start to be seen here: http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/contributions/sandbox/walkah/translate_... I don't see anything non-i18n specific here. let us not pollute low level functions such as url() with custom hacks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wed, 17 Aug 2005 12:26:11 +0000 : Goba Why extend url() and why not the alias retrieval functions? BTW at that time it was decided that a single function should be used (conf_url_rewrite()) and not a hook, because of performance reasons. If you provide the functionality this was, then conf_url_rewrite() gets confusing, and even meaningless if you do it in the alias retrieval functions themselfs. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wed, 17 Aug 2005 12:49:30 +0000 : chx Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/url_rewrite_1.patch (1.95 KB) Goba is so right, that I was already working on it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thu, 18 Aug 2005 11:11:39 +0000 : Jose A Reyero This second version is more limited, and wont be that useful, because in case an alias exists, the rewritting is skipped. IMHO, the aim for this patch should be allowing modules to add information in the path or in the query string, for *all* the outgoing urls. I was thinking of i18n module and language information, but this can be useful for other modules too. So please, let's stick to the previous version of the patch ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thu, 18 Aug 2005 11:45:23 +0000 : Goba Jose, so you advocate only mangling URLs on output? Really?