Drupal. Get path alias from current url without the installation's folder arguments

Question

I'd like to retrieve the current page path alias without the installation's folder arguments. I'm using:

drupal_get_path_alias(request_uri())

But this returns installation/whatever/actual/path and I want to retrieve the actual/path only no matter what installation/whatever is.

Thanks in advance :)

Answer 1

Found it. It was actually a mix of both suggestions:

$current_path = drupal_get_path_alias($_GET["q"]);

Thanks though.

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Update: the previous solution doesn't always work

Someone suggested using an alternative method:

str_replace(base_path(), '', drupal_get_path_alias(request_uri(), 1));

But, is there any way of doing the same without using the slightly expensive str_replace?

Thanks

Answer 2

The path of the node you are on?

http://api.drupal.org/api/function/drupal_get_path_alias/6

if ($node || (arg(0) == 'node' && arg(2) != 'edit')) {
   $system_path = 'node/'.arg(1);
   $current_path = drupal_get_path_alias($system_path);
}

That code will fire on node pages and tell you the page alias.

For more information, you can dump out $_GET and look at the 'q' query string value.