Come together with the global Drupal community in Rotterdam, 28 Sept – 1 Oct 2026. Sessions, contribution, connection, and Early Bird savings until 8 June.Create a node type of Path Redirect so that users with the correct access permissions can create their own path redirects.
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Comment #1
jjeff commentedOne of the main focuses of this module is performance. Since the module needs to query the database on every page load during hook_init(), we want to be sure to keep the overhead as low as possible.
What is the use case for redirects-as-nodes? I suppose that hook_nodeapi() could just insert information into the current table and hook_init() would work the same way as it currently does. But if we're talking about a full node_load() at the beginning of every page call, that's a deal breaker. IMHO :-)
Comment #2
robloachYeah, I meant work around the Path Redirect system, so that when you create a node, it would add the path redirect to the table. When you delete the node, it would remove the path redirect. The use case is a TinyURL clone. Once I get the time, I'll put together a patch.
Comment #3
jjeff commentedSure.
Maybe this could be handled as a separate module so that the feature could be turned on/off.
path_redirect_node.module?
We just want to make sure that we've still go the "old" interface for site admins. The node interface might be cumbersome for creating a lot of redirects.
Dunno... prove me wrong. :-)
Comment #4
robloachYou're never wrong, Jeff!
Comment #5
robloachhttp://drupal.org/project/cck_redirection