Small tip : anchor links with dynamic path

Recently, I wanted to add one of those accessiblity top menu bar on a MODx website I am building... I was faced with the need to set anchor links in my documents. I wanted only one chunk for the whole website and since anchor links are relative, I needed a way to generate the right path dynamically.

Edit : Fixed according to Wendy’s tip below.

Here is what I did : I use [~[*id*]~]#anchor

Of course you’ll have to check your URL settings there : it will work with friendly URLs:Yes, Use friendly aliases:Yes, Use friendly alias path:Yes

Sample chunk



Hope you find this useful

Thats great TIP !

Thanks for sharing this.. very usefull.

regards,

zi

hi !
but in my website this tip does not work with alias paths ..
for example,
the link will link to website.com/alias.html instead of website.com/pathtoalias/alias.html

( i used [(base_url)][*alias*] in the templates )


p.s. i had added this tag in the pages header <base href="[(site_url)]" /> ( the dropmenu alias paths doesn’t work if i don’t )

Hello,

I have also a problem using this tips :

[(base_url)][*alias*]#anchor

produces :

http://www.mywebsite.com/alias#anchor

instead of :

http://www.mywebsite.com/pathtoalias/alias.html#anchor

That means, "suffix" and "path" are not generated. Is this a MODx bug ?

Why don’t you guys use this

Dumb me, I only tested this with a document at the root, not in subfolder...

Wendy, not sure the [~[*id*]~] trick will do : I had asked here about that, and Jason said I’d have to use the id trick, but it didn’t cut it for me and I still have to find the right way to do it...

Anyone ?

David, it’s suppose to be work though. Imagine [*id*] is being parsed first, so it will be replaced with current doc id, and later [~~] will be parsed with the current doc id in the center. So if [~2~] or [~29~] work in your server, than [~[*id*]~] suppose to work as well.

The only concern will be for people that are not using SEF, then the link will be index.php?id=2, so when you have [~[*id*]~]#anchorlink, then it will outputed index.php?id=2#anchorlink (will this work?).

I haven’t tested this out yet, but by having a little knowledge on how the doc parser does his job, it’s suppoe to behave like what I explain in here.

Sincerely,

Hmmm, I’ll check that but I believe I have proper URL settings and I didn’t get the path with [~[*id*]~], only the file alias which I agree is strange.

I probably missed something specific to my config or did something wrong then. I’ll check and report.
Thanks !

I have just tested the [~[*id*]~] trick, and... it works !

[~[*id*]~]#anchor gives me the right link, with the right subfolder path.

Many thanks to you.

Ok thanks Wendy for the correction to my tip !

I have to check this now, since I am the culprit for it not working... grrr