Question

I have a website where drupal manage the contents, but another application handle the e-commerce (my customer doesnt like to change his own e-commerce)

I dont like to have the e-commerce to looks differently from the rest of the websites, so i’ve made a drupal Page node with php code in the body, that simply include the external app and initialize it.

It works well, but the problem is the other link the e-commerce generate:

http://example.com/shop #The Page node i've created, this work
http://example.com/shop/catalog/fruit/ #here comes the trouble!

The external app handle the url by its own, so what i need is to tell drupal to redirect all the url that begin with shop to his shop Page node… something like

http://example.com/shop/* => load http://example.com/shop

What is the best practices to do that?

Answer 1

After googlin around, i found the Drupal custom_url_rewrite_inbound that does exactly what i need.

I inserted the function in my /sites/default/settings.php:

function custom_url_rewrite_inbound(&$result, $path, $path_language) {
  if(preg_match("/^shop(\/)/", $path, $matches)) {
    $result = 'node/XX'; //XX is the ID of my Page Node with the ecommerce code.
  }
}

It works like a charm!