[drupal-devel] [feature] Prefill 'path' field on new node form

[jakeg]

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 Project:      Drupal
 Version:      4.6.0
 Component:    path.module
 Category:     feature requests
 Priority:     normal
 Assigned to:  Anonymous
 Reported by:  jakeg
 Updated by:   jakeg
 Status:       patch

I'm creating wiki-like features on my site so that if someone with the
permission to create new pages goes to a 'page not found' page then it
gives them an option to create a page at that address (i.e. at that
path, so if they goto /somepath they can easily create a page with path
/somepath).


To do this its very handy for the 'path alias' field on the new node
page to be pre-filled with a value using e.g.
node/add/page?edit[path]=somepath in the same way that you can prefill
the title field using node/add/page?edit[title]=sometitle


I've got this to work by adding the following line to path.module at
line 211 as thus:


      case 'form pre':
        if(!$node->path AND isset($_GET['edit']['path']))
$node->path = $_GET['edit']['path'];
        $output = ...


... my line is the 'if' line in the middle above.


Could this be added to core? I'm sure others could find it handy and it
would save me from having to rewrite the line on every upgrade. If it
can't be added to core, is there anyway for me to put this line into my
own custom module somehow so that I don't have to rewrite it every time
I upgrade?




jakeg