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

William's was not suggesting to hack anything. He is suggesting to make a small custom module to add the feature you want. I think his suggestion is an excellent one actually. That's in fact how I would do it. It's about 6 lines of code altogether probably.

F

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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hello Clark.

thank you. I did, and I think it's an excellent module. however, since the site I want this functionality for is in Arabic, pathauto doesn't work very well with such characters, and I don't like the transliteration that it does.

thank you once again, Mohammed.

On 6/22/2009 4:40 PM, Clarke Robin wrote:

Have you looked at the Pathauto module?

(http://drupal.org/project/pathauto)

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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.

-- All The Best, Mohammed Al-shar'

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hello Earnie

thank you very much. William and Fred have also explained this to me already, and I thank the 3 of you for leading me to this discovery which adds to the beauty of drupal in my "eyes". however, I explained to them that my only problem with this is that it requires writing code, and I don't think I can do this, even though it's just a few lines long.

thank you. Mohammed.

On 6/22/2009 7:33 PM, Earnie Boyd wrote:

Quoting "Mohammed@atexplorer.com" mohammed@atexplorer.com:

...

hello William,

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

Using hook_form_alter() doesn't ``hack core''. You create a custom module and set the form attribute to make the field required. There is no other method.

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But when the currency of open source isn't labre, it can also be, you guessed it, currency.

http://drupal.org/paid-services

Just another potential option.

Luke

On Mon, 22 Jun 2009, Larry Garfield wrote:

If you have an eye for usability or UI design or documentation writing or some other non-coding skill, you may be able to get someone in #Drupal to code it up for you in exchange for reviewing a patch or three. There's lots of things you can do that don't involve code that Drupal desperately needs, and the currency of open source is labor. :-)

(No guarantee that it will work, but "you look at my issue and I'll look at yours" is a common arrangement.)

On Monday 22 June 2009 1:22:38 pm Mohammed@atexplorer.com wrote:

...

hello Earnie

thank you very much. William and Fred have also explained this to me already, and I thank the 3 of you for leading me to this discovery which adds to the beauty of drupal in my "eyes". however, I explained to them that my only problem with this is that it requires writing code, and I don't think I can do this, even though it's just a few lines long.

thank you. Mohammed.