[development] Human readable taxonomy URLs

[Stefan Nagtegaal]

Op 21-mei-2006, om 15:27 heeft Khalid B het volgende geschreven:

>> > Suggestions on how we can make this easier, and how we can make  
>> it so
>> > that Drupal generates URLs can automatically take advantage of the
>> > latest developments in microformats (like Technorati and shortly,
>> > Microsoft)?
>> >
>> > Maybe there should be a checkbox in the taxonomy.module to
>> > enable/disable the auto-generation of clean URLs?  Or maybe there
>> > should be a better UI to mass alias taxonomy URLs?
>>
>> You could look at pathauto module and see if it already provides
>> automatic aliases for taxo terms. If it does not it should be fairly
>> easy to add. I don't think that alias generation should be tied  
>> directly
>> into taxonomy.module.
>
> Here is  a second vote for pathauto. One of the few modules I can't
> live without.
> By default, it uses [cat] as the alias, which is just the term name.
> It can also get more creative, and use [vocab]/[catpath].
> All  that  is missing is we add the part with :
> rel="tag"
> I guess it is a good feature for sitemenu and the other taxo based
> modules.

If this discussion will lead to "pathauto for core", please take over  
maintainership. I don't want to get even more work on my fork as I do  
have ATM.
Contact me offlist if you want to take over maintainership.


Steef