Re: [support] force users to enter path alias

hello William and Fred,

thank you very much for the explanation! if only I can write code I will use this power of drupal extensively. any more hints or a skeleton module that I can try? unfortunately I won't be able to write this on my own, even though the code is only few lines long.

thank you both very much, and I am sorry for the miss understanding.

Mohammed.

On 6/22/2009 4:19 PM, William Smith wrote:

Hi Mohammed -

I think you misunderstand the hook system. It is designed so that you *don't* have to hack core files. You would implement this in your site's custom module space (if you don't have one, you can create one easily). You would then implement the hook as /your_module_name_/form_alter(&$form, $form_state, $form_id)

This is the way that Drupal is designed to be extended and is not at all a hack. You can read more here: http://api.drupal.org/api/group/hooks/6

Best, William *||* On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Mohammed@atexplorer.com mailto:Mohammed@atexplorer.com <mohammed@atexplorer.com mailto:mohammed@atexplorer.com> wrote:

hello William,

thanks for the answer. I don't prefer to use this method as I need
to hack core files. any other thoughts?

thank you.
Mohammed.


On 6/22/2009 3:09 PM, William Smith wrote:

...

I don't recall if there is a direct way (ie. config option) to
make the path alias textfield mandatory, but if nothing else you
could use hook_form_alter
(http://api.drupal.org/api/function/hook_form_alter/6) to make
the field required.

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 7:13 AM, Mohammed@atexplorer.com
<mailto:Mohammed@atexplorer.com> <mohammed@atexplorer.com
<mailto:mohammed@atexplorer.com>> wrote:

    hello.

    is this at all possible? I want users to fill in the path
    alias field and make it obligatory. it sounds simple, but
    searching drupal.org <http://drupal.org> didn't yield
    anything relevant.

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    Mohammed Al-shar'

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