Drupal. Get path alias from current url without the installation's folder arguments

Question

I'd like to retrieve the current page path alias without the installation's folder arguments. I'm using:

drupal_get_path_alias(request_uri())

But this returns installation/whatever/actual/path and I want to retrieve the actual/path only no matter what installation/whatever is.

Thanks in advance :)

ozke · Accepted Answer · 2010-06-08T15:01:00.110

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Found it. It was actually a mix of both suggestions:

$current_path = drupal_get_path_alias($_GET["q"]);

Thanks though.

Update: the previous solution doesn't always work

Someone suggested using an alternative method:

str_replace(base_path(), '', drupal_get_path_alias(request_uri(), 1));

But, is there any way of doing the same without using the slightly expensive str_replace?

Thanks

edited Jun 08 '10 at 15:01

answered Jun 08 '10 at 14:46

ozke

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 08 '10 at 14:41

The path of the node you are on?

http://api.drupal.org/api/function/drupal_get_path_alias/6

if ($node || (arg(0) == 'node' && arg(2) != 'edit')) {
   $system_path = 'node/'.arg(1);
   $current_path = drupal_get_path_alias($system_path);
}

That code will fire on node pages and tell you the page alias.

For more information, you can dump out $_GET and look at the 'q' query string value.

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 08 '10 at 14:50

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Maybe you can use base_path() and str_replace like this :

str_replace (base_path(), '', drupal_get_path_alias(request_uri()), 1);

The base_path is saved in the database.

answered Jun 08 '10 at 14:50

Brice Favre

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This also does the trick for any kind of page if it wasn't for the typo. Fixed version is: str_replace(base_path(), '', drupal_get_path_alias(request_uri(), 1)); – ozke Jun 08 '10 at 14:56
My intention was finding a way of doing this without str_replace. Any ideas? – ozke Jun 08 '10 at 14:57
why you add an argument to drupal_get _path_alias? – Brice Favre Jun 08 '10 at 15:02
To retrieve the current URL, isn't it? – ozke Jun 08 '10 at 15:08

score 1 · Answer 4 · edited Mar 24 '11 at 13:26

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$current_page_url = drupal_get_path_alias( implode( '/', arg() ) );

also works

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answered Mar 23 '11 at 15:01

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Timofey Drozhzhin · Answer 5 · 2014-03-04T01:53:15.777

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Fastest solution.

substr(drupal_get_path_alias(request_uri(), 1), strlen(base_path()));

To pass it into an argument

$arg = explode('/', substr(drupal_get_path_alias(request_uri(), 1), strlen(base_path())));

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answered Mar 04 '14 at 01:41

Timofey Drozhzhin

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score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Jun 08 '10 at 14:42

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Have you tried $_GET['q']?

answered Jun 08 '10 at 14:42

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That returns the path, not the alias. Thanks though, I already found it. – ozke Jun 08 '10 at 14:46
Enable the Global Redirect module and the path should always be that of the alias. – ceejayoz Jun 08 '10 at 15:24
This does not provide an answer to the question. To critique or request clarification from an author, leave a comment below their post. – netcoder Aug 23 '12 at 14:31
@netcoder You can consider the answer "try $_GET['q']", then. You really are bumping a two year old thread for this? – ceejayoz Aug 23 '12 at 14:49
@ceejayoz: No, it's the review tool that posts comments automatically. Clearing up the flagged answers, and this should probably have been a comment. – netcoder Aug 23 '12 at 14:50

score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Sep 14 '11 at 16:59

I tend to plump for the full url instead to avoid any problems that arise when base_path() isn't just '/'.

$url = (($_SERVER['HTTPS'])?"https://":"http://")  .  $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . url($_GET['q']);

or even more simply:

$url = url($_GET['q'], array('absolute'=>true));

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