Introducing View Alias Module

Hey guys, so ironic, I

Hey guys,

so ironic, I just did the same thing yesterday. Our problem is that we are using panels2 everywhere, and the client wants “mini-sites” like:

/campaigns/bushmeat
with:

// $args
    // for each arg
    // remove the arg and see if the path that is left is in path auto
    // example:
    // campaigns/mycampaign/blog/superblog
    // first loop:
    //   is campaigns/mycampaign/blog in the alias table (no).
    // second loop:
    //  is campaigns/mycampaign in the alias table (yes) -> node/123
    //  set the path


    
  $arguments = explode(’/’, $_GET[‘q’]);

  // Only limit this to a couple of url paths to keep it safe?

  if (in_array($arguments0,array(‘campaign’,‘toolkit’,‘group’,‘organization’))) {
    while ($removed_args[] = array_pop($arguments) ) {      
      $test = implode(”/”,$arguments);
      if ($real_path = drupal_get_normal_path($test)) {
        $real_path .= ‘/’ . implode(’/’,$removed_args);         
        menu_set_active_item($real_path);
        break; 
      }
    }
  }

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extension

I actually started trying to integrate it into pathauto, but time became an issue and got hung up on integrating instead of finding a working solution. I also wasn’t convinced at the time that I would be able to cover all the bases and not break pathauto. But, I am going to take another look at moving it into pathauto since I have some time this week. I also need to make contact with the pathauto authors. ;)

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