Getting the URL of a node in Drupal 7

Question

Goal: To send an email with a list of URLs generated from nodes.

In my custom module I have managed to get the node id which the user wants and I now want to get the URL of each node to put into my email.

I searched the db and used google but I can't seem to find the right solution.

It seems we need to construct the URL something like this:

<?php
global $base_url;
$link=$base_url."// few more parameters 

Solution 1

You can use the url() function:

$options = array('absolute' => TRUE);
$nid = 1; // Node ID
$url = url('node/' . $nid, $options);

That will give you the absolute path (i.e. with http://example.com/ in front of it), with the URL aliased path to the node page.

Solution 2

You can also try drupal_lookup_path('alias',"node/".$node->nid).

Solution 3

Also you can get it by

$path=drupal_get_path_alias('node/'.$nid);

absolute path for nid

url('node/' . $node->id(), ["absolute" => TRUE]);

Solution 4

You can also use the l() function.

  l(t('Link text'), 'node/123', array('options' => array('absolute' => TRUE)));

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Comments

[robomc]

Is there some problem with this method? This seem more useful, and less obvious, than the approved answer.

[Akarsh Satija]

You are not getting the question! please read the question carefully before answering

[cambraca]

What if the node has no alias? also, this will return a relative path.

[cambraca]

What if the node has no alias? also, this will return a relative path.

[Yuseferi]

@cambraca yes it is return raw path something like node/3

[scotself]

Use in conjunction with $base_url global variable.

[William Turrell]

drupal_lookup_path() isn't always directly available, use url() instead.