How to get all paths in drupal install

Question

Hi, I need to write a module that gives me a page will all possible paths in a drupal install, including orphaned pages. (site map won't work for that).

I can query the url_alias table for aliases, and I can query the menu_router table for all paths, even ones set in page/feed displays in views. But, variable paths (those with arguments) get interpreted at run-time.

So, is there a way to get all possible paths in a drupal install, including dynamic paths and orphans? It's catch22. I have to know all the urls ahead of time to get them.

Answer 1

All possible paths in Drupal itself? menu_links table should have all of that listed as registered paths in the system.

Answer 2

You may want to check out the menu_edit_validate() function to see how drupal checks if the link for a new menu item has a valid path.

I don't think it's possible to get a list of all possible paths including the ones with variable values in it. The essence of such a dynamic path is that is can accept multiple values. Of course you could loop through the menu items and, when you come across node/%node/edit, add a new item to your list for every node ID in your database. However I don't see how that could be useful for anything....

Can you explain which problem you're trying to solve? Maybe we can help you find an even better solution.

Answer 3

So, you can definitely get all possible paths in drupal by querying the url_alias table (that gives you all aliases), and menu_router, which will in addition give you paths set by page or feed displays. The problem remains that you cannot fill in the variables in variable paths in the menu_router table. You have to know in each case what the variables could be, since Drupal fills them in at runtime.

So my problem is a catch22. You have to somehow visit all the paths to get them, but you can't programatically visit them (or crawl them) unless you know what they are in advance.