[simple! - edit: not-so-simple] How to call by alias instead of "[~71~]" (id)?

If I have friendly urls deactivated, when I want to link a page is there a way to use the alias instead of the id? That is, something like:

instead of

?

dont think there is a simple way

Thanks, good to know; another reason to activate friendly urls.

There is a snippet for calling a page by an alias in the repository actually for this. I think OpenGeek himself created it. Check out the new as of yesterday Navigation & Tagging/Taxonomy forum topic (more of those to come).

http://www.modxcms.com/AliasLinks-616.html

Yep seemed to work quite well. I was wondering how this would work with duplicate alias’ allowed and it prob does the logical thing, the first document it comes across (based on Doc ID) with the right alias gets linked to.

Other’s in the old thread on AliasLinks seemed to have trouble with this and PHx together.

Nice. Still there is a problem: when snippets/etc. use a parameter for document nodes, they use the id (think Ditto as an example, the parent parameter). And this cannot be replaced in any way by the document alias, am I right?

This is somehow a problem for us, the best would be to have independence from id numbers, and relying only on (unique) aliases: this is true for several reasons I’ll not explain here.

Can someone suggest some way to accomplish this?
Maybe a universal snippet for calling snippets, passing the given parameters as the same parameters with the same name and value, and replacing parameter "alias:aliasname" with the id number corresponding to the specified unique alias?
i.e., something like:


Or could this slow down things too much to be worth of?