function pathauto_alias_uniquify in Pathauto 6.2

Same name and namespace in other branches

1. 7 pathauto.inc \pathauto_alias_uniquify()

Check to ensure a path alias is unique and add suffix variants if necessary.

Given an alias 'content/test' if a path alias with the exact alias already exists, the function will change the alias to 'content/test-0' and will increase the number suffix until it finds a unique alias.

Parameters

$alias: A string with the alias. Can be altered by reference.

$source: A string with the path source.

$langcode: A string with a language code.

1 call to pathauto_alias_uniquify()

pathauto_create_alias in ./pathauto.inc

Apply patterns to create an alias.

File

./pathauto.inc, line 538

Miscellaneous functions for Pathauto.

Code

function pathauto_alias_uniquify(&$alias, $source, $langcode) {
  if (!_pathauto_alias_exists($alias, $source, $langcode)) {
    return;
  }

  // If the alias already exists, generate a new, hopefully unique, variant
  $maxlength = min(variable_get('pathauto_max_length', 100), _pathauto_get_schema_alias_maxlength());
  $separator = variable_get('pathauto_separator', '-');
  $original_alias = $alias;
  $i = 0;
  do {

    // Append an incrementing numeric suffix until we find a unique alias.
    $unique_suffix = $separator . $i;
    $alias = pathauto_truncate_utf8($original_alias, $maxlength - drupal_strlen($unique_suffix), TRUE) . $unique_suffix;
    $i++;
  } while (_pathauto_alias_exists($alias, $source, $langcode));
}