When adding to the URL

I ran into a very simple issue when creating snippets and plugins. When you need to add a value to the document’s URL for processing on refresh or loading another document, always make sure to use &key=value. The document’s base URL will already have the ?id=xx (index.php?id=xx) which gets rewritten if Friendly URLs are used. If you forget this and add your extra values with another ? instead of & it can cause some odd "bugs", particularly if Friendly URLs are not being used.

My simple way is to detect if furls are on or off and use the appropriate character. See NewsListing 4.3.1 for an example.

Thanks! Blatantly ripped off the code in the NewsListing snippet and popped it into the ShopCart snippet (well, I used my favorite ternary operator, but it’s the same logic).



At this point, the TemplateSwitcher links are hand-coded in a chunk, so I need to remember to use whichever character is appropriate for the site in question. Eventually, however, I’ll have a snippet to automagically generate the links from the templates available, and this code will come in handy.