**Description:
The pathauto module provides support functions for other modules to
automatically generate aliases based on appropriate criteria, with a
central settings path for site administrators.
Implementations are provided for core content types: nodes, taxonomy
terms, users, blogs, and events.
**Benefits:
Besides making the page address more reflective of its content than
"node/138", it's important to know that modern search engines give
heavy weight to search terms which appear in a page's URL. By
automatically using keywords based directly on the page content in the URL,
relevant search engine hits for your page can be significantly
enhanced.
**Installation AND Upgrades:
See the INSTALL.txt - especially step 4.
**Notice
Please bear in mind that only URLs passed through Drupal's l() or url()
functions will be replaced with their aliases during page output. If a module
or your template contains hardcoded links, such as 'href="node/$node->nid"'
those won't get replaced with their corresponding aliases. Use instead
* 'href="'. url("node/$node->nid") .'"' or
* l("Your link title", "node/$node->nid")
See http://api.drupal.org/api/HEAD/function/url and
http://api.drupal.org/api/HEAD/function/l for more information.
**NOTE:
Index aliases are buggy, slow, and can be harmful to your site. Please don't
use them. They are included for backwards compatibility but are removed in
Pathuaot 5.x-2.x and will definitely be gone in the Drupal6.x Compatible
version of the module.
**Credits:
The original module combined the functionality of Mike Ryan's autopath with
Tommy Sundstrom's path_automatic.
Significant enhancements were contributed by jdmquin @ www.bcdems.net.
Matt England added the tracker support.
Other suggestions and patches contributed by the Drupal community.
Current maintainer: Greg Knaddison (greg AT knaddison DOT com)
**Changes:
See the CHANGELOG.txt
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- **Description:
- The pathauto module provides support functions for other modules to
- automatically generate aliases based on appropriate criteria, with a
- central settings path for site administrators.
-
- Implementations are provided for core content types: nodes, taxonomy
- terms, users, blogs, and events.
-
- **Benefits:
-
- Besides making the page address more reflective of its content than
- "node/138", it's important to know that modern search engines give
- heavy weight to search terms which appear in a page's URL. By
- automatically using keywords based directly on the page content in the URL,
- relevant search engine hits for your page can be significantly
- enhanced.
-
-
- **Installation AND Upgrades:
- See the INSTALL.txt - especially step 4.
-
- **Notice
-
- Please bear in mind that only URLs passed through Drupal's l() or url()
- functions will be replaced with their aliases during page output. If a module
- or your template contains hardcoded links, such as 'href="node/$node->nid"'
- those won't get replaced with their corresponding aliases. Use instead
-
- * 'href="'. url("node/$node->nid") .'"' or
- * l("Your link title", "node/$node->nid")
-
- See http://api.drupal.org/api/HEAD/function/url and
- http://api.drupal.org/api/HEAD/function/l for more information.
-
- **NOTE:
- Index aliases are buggy, slow, and can be harmful to your site. Please don't
- use them. They are included for backwards compatibility but are removed in
- Pathuaot 5.x-2.x and will definitely be gone in the Drupal6.x Compatible
- version of the module.
-
-
- **Credits:
-
- The original module combined the functionality of Mike Ryan's autopath with
- Tommy Sundstrom's path_automatic.
-
- Significant enhancements were contributed by jdmquin @ www.bcdems.net.
-
- Matt England added the tracker support.
-
- Other suggestions and patches contributed by the Drupal community.
-
- Current maintainer: Greg Knaddison (greg AT knaddison DOT com)
-
- **Changes:
- See the CHANGELOG.txt
-