[consulting] "Forced" path redirect?

[Nick Lombard]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Greg Knaddison
<greg.knaddison at gmail.com>wrote:

> In Drupal 6 this would have scalability problems due to the way menu
> items are stored/retrieved.  I think the solution that path_redirect
> takes is functionally the same and more scalable.
>

I agree if we take the same approach as with the no-cache drupal 5 version,
but for drupal 6 menu system we can still make this solution viable. The
bookmarks are configured via a settings form and when saved we can update
and refresh the menu cache once only. But ymmv!

Nick Lombard
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>
> Regards,
> Greg
>
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 3:03 AM, Nick Lombard <nick at jigsoft.co.za> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am not sure if the list will accept attachments, one way to find out.
> >
> > Attached is a module I wrote for drupal 5 to do just this. Create menu
> items
> > for bookmarks and hyperlinks from other sites, for old site content, to
> map
> > to new content locations. It does not use aliases it actually creates the
> > new MENU_CALLBACK menu items and redirects to the new content. No hassles
> > with duplicate urls or them being retrieved by search engine bots.
> >
> > If this is something that will be useful to others, let me know and I
> will
> > create it as a contrib project and port to D6.
> >
> > --
> > Nick Lombard
> > contact #: +27 82 413 9931
> > jabber id: nick at jigsoft.co.za
> > skype id: nickl_
> > footprint: www.jigsoft.co.za
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Audrius Naslenas
> > <audrius.naslenas at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Need advice from "path" magician :)
> >>
> >> On the old site had content url path system wich is different from new
> >> one.
> >> Now found, that there are some valuable backlinks to the old and
> obsolete
> >> urls. Thought this is simple - install Path Redirect module and
> everything
> >> is solved, but: some of those old links have pretty similar structure to
> >> currently used views, and produce real (useless) pages when trying to
> >> access
> >> them. When I try to add path redirect - getting "You cannot create a
> >> redirect from a currently valid path." error.
> >>
> >> Is there a way to do some kind of "forced" redirect? In Drupal 6 way
> >> preferably...
> >>
> >> Thank you.
> >>
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