Views Challenge

Question

I have a custom content type called 'Project' that contains a field called 'Category' of type 'List (text)'.

I have created a custom view block that selects all category fields in Projects and used a contextual filter to 'Display a summary', so the block contains an unordered deduped list of the categories.

The block is loaded into a region in a custom template, and output in page.tpl.php using

print render($page['other_menu']);

Unfortunately, the URLs in the menu appear in this form: href="/projects/Culture-%26-Leisure"

I need them to be all lower case and replace -%26- with an underscore like this: href="/projects/culture_leisure"

I can make this happen using preg_replace(), but suspect it's possible to have the view output the URL in the format I require. I just can't figure how to make the view do this.

Answer 1

If I can reverse engineer what you are doing, am I right to assume that you have a project with a title of "Culture & Leisure" that you want linked to /projects/culture_leisure instead of "/projects/Culture-%26-Leisure" ?

If so, on Drupal 6 at least, this looks like a quick change of pathauto punctuation settings as it's the module that changes spaces and punctuation in titles and such into more presentable urls.

Here it's at 'admin/build/path/pathauto' but I am sure you can find it or its equivalent on your Drupal 7 site pretty simply.

There, just look for what it's doing with the ampersand and tell it to delete it instead of leaving it alone (which ends up in it being encoding as %26), tell it to use a '_' as the separator instead of a '-' and, last but not least, to also change everything to lowercase.

That should do it :)