Pathauto and dependencies

web/modules/contrib/pathauto/README.md

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+#Pathauto
+
+If you are developing for this module, have a look at pathauto.api.php.
+
+##Description
+
+The Pathauto module provides support functions for other modules to
+automatically generate aliases based on appropriate criteria, with a
+central settings path for site administrators.
+
+Implementations are provided for core entity types: content, taxonomy terms,
+and users (including blogs and forum pages).
+
+Pathauto also provides a way to delete large numbers of aliases.  This feature
+is available at  Administer > Configuration > Search and metadata > URL aliases >
+Delete aliases.
+
+##Benefits
+
+Besides making the page address more reflective of its content than
+"node/138", it's important to know that modern search engines give
+heavy weight to search terms which appear in a page's URL. By
+automatically using keywords based directly on the page content in the URL,
+relevant search engine hits for your page can be significantly
+enhanced.
+
+##Notices
+
+Pathauto just adds URL aliases to content, users, and taxonomy terms.
+Because it's an alias, the standard Drupal URL (for example node/123 or
+taxonomy/term/1) will still function as normal.  If you have external links
+to your site pointing to standard Drupal URLs, or hardcoded links in a module,
+template, content or menu which point to standard Drupal URLs it will bypass
+the alias set by Pathauto.
+
+There are reasons you might not want two URLs for the same content on your
+site. If this applies to you, please note that you will need to update any
+hard coded links in your content or blocks.
+
+If you use the "system path" (i.e. node/10) for menu items and settings like
+that, Drupal will replace it with the url_alias.
+
+For external links, you might want to consider the Path Redirect or
+Global Redirect modules, which allow you to set forwarding either per item or
+across the site to your aliased URLs.
+
+###URLs (not) Getting Replaced With Aliases:
+Please bear in mind that only URLs passed through Drupal's Drupal's URL and
+Link APIs will be replaced with their aliases during page output. If
+a module or your template contains hardcoded links, such as
+'href="node/$node->nid"', those won't get replaced with their corresponding
+aliases.
+
+## Disabling Pathauto for a specific content type (or taxonomy)
+
+When the pattern for a content type is left blank, the default pattern will be
+used. But if the default pattern is also blank, Pathauto will be disabled
+for that content type.
+
+## Installing Pathauto
+1. Install the module as normal, note that there are two dependencies.
+2. Configure the module at admin/config/search/path/patterns - add a new pattern by creating by clicking "Add Pathauto pattern".
+3. Fill out "Path pattern" with fx [node:title], choose which content types this applies to, give it a label (the name) and save it.
+4. When you save new content from now on, it should automatically be assigned an alternative URL
+
+##Credits:
+
+The original module combined the functionality of Mike Ryan's autopath with
+Tommy Sundstrom's path_automatic.
+
+Significant enhancements were contributed by jdmquin @ www.bcdems.net.
+
+Matt England added the tracker support (tracker support has been removed in
+recent changes).
+
+Other suggestions and patches contributed by the Drupal community.
+
+Current maintainers:
+
+- Dave Reid - http://www.davereid.net
+- Greg Knaddison - http://www.knaddison.com
+- Mike Ryan - http://mikeryan.name
+- Frederik 'Freso' S. Olesen - http://freso.dk