Have you looked at the Pathauto module?
(http://drupal.org/project/pathauto)
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From: support-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of Mohammed@atexplorer.com Sent: 22 June 2009 14:30 To: support@drupal.org Subject: 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 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 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 didn't yield anything relevant. -- All The Best, Mohammed Al-shar' -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]
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