Getting URL alias of a term

Question

I am writing a module, and am confused about the term's URLs. because, if pathauto moduel is installed, then the alias of that module should be provided. How to achieve this?

Default drupal's URL: taxonomy/term/30 Pathauto's probable pattern:

category/30
category/[title]
category/[title]/[id]
...and millions of other possible patte

Using drupal_get_path_alias() returns drupal's default path.

How should I get the path used by pathauto? I have seen pathauto's module, but it does not provide an API for this purpose as it seems.

Answer 1

Just use the url() function. It will return aliased path if you have pathauto installed.

Example:

$link = url('taxonomy/term/1');

Answer 2

You can either use url() or drupal_get_path_alias() but make sure that your path argument doesn't have leading slash.

Example:

drupal_get_path_alias('/taxonomy/term/1');
url('/taxonomy/term/1');

Returns path '/taxonomy/term/1'

drupal_get_path_alias('taxonomy/term/1');

Returns 'tags/some-tag'

url('taxonomy/term/1');

Returns '/tags/some-tag'