id from alias

sucram Reply #1, 18 years ago

Hi!

Is there a way, to get the id for a document, where I only know the alias?

Regards,
sucram

redman Reply #2, 18 years ago

you could query the db, something like:

$id = $modx->db->select(’id’, $modx->getFullTableName(’site_content’), ’`alias`=’.$alias);

sottwell Reply #3, 18 years ago

The alias listing is stored in the site cache file, and is made available as an array. It looks like you want $modx->documentListing.

$d = &$this->documentListing;
...
$d['index'] = 1;
$d['blog'] = 2;
$d['add-a-blog-entry'] = 3;
...

The array key is the alias, and the value is the ID.

The parser uses this code:

 if (array_key_exists($alias, $this->documentListing)) {
$this->documentIdentifier= $this->documentListing[$alias];

You would need to change the $this to $modx to use the code in a snippet.

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sucram Reply #4, 18 years ago

Thanks a lot ...

The code above was exactly what I was looking for ...

sucram