paths

I've lately been working on a few sites with 10K plus path aliases, all generated from pathauto. Mostly on dedicated boxes so resources aren't too much of an issue. It got me thinking about an alternate approach, maybe an addition to pathauto or a separate module. Ok, here goes ...

Pathauto has a nice way of defining path naming rules for content types. These paths are stored in the database as aliases. Good. But how about NOT storing any of these paths in the database. Just "hook" into Drupal to generate a path on the fly based on the pathauto ruleset.

A new module was announced yesterday "Find Path"

http://drupal.org/project/find_path

For those of you using Pathauto or URLIFY this could be quite a handy module to keep you from having to go login to your database to edit the records - instead you get this simple interface.

Has anyone tried this? Any thoughts?

Note: I haven't tried it, just read the description

I hope it's ok to post this here. I first posted this question in the support forums -- but it was suggested that I post here instead since it's a path question.

I'm totally new to Drupal but experienced in SEO and PHP. I've always rolled my own crappy CMS because of custom needs. I'm REALLY hoping Drupal will help me to stop this wasteful methodology.

Hello,

I think this is a great group.

I'm not sure if it's within the charter, but I'd like to request some assistance in testing/reviewing the Pathauto module to make sure that it is Postgresql compliant. I'm a maintainer of Pathauto and would love to find a user of both Postgresql and Pathauto to make sure that it works (and that changes I make don't break the compliance!)

Anyone care to help? It's a pretty popular module so I imagine I'd hear about any problems, but it would be nice to know "for sure".

Thanks,
Greg

Steven recently got frustrated enough with the Drupal core restriction on international letters in path module that he removed it..

So, now pathauto and urlify can use any character from the node title that the user submits.

I've created an issue for pathauto to see how to best handle this. Please provide your input on the ideas there.