System settings: What happened to site_url?

Didn’t there used to be a system setting for site_url? I don’t see it anymore... some templates that were using it broke. Am I going senile, or are some of these changing under the hood? I see the rb_base_url, but no site_url.

I remember it as being there too. I guessed that it was to keep naive users from accidentally trashing the whole site, but I’m not sure.

I made a list of the "missing" system settings with examples for the book (last time I checked, the placeholders still worked):

[table][tr][td]Site URL[/td] [td][[++site_url]][/td] [td]http://localhost/revo/[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Base Path[/td] [td][[++base_path]] [/td] [td]C:/xampp/htdocs/revo/[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Base URL[/td] [td][[++base_url]][/td] [td]/revo/[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Core path[/td] [td][[++core_path]][/td] [td]C:/xampp/htdocs/revo/core/[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Manager Path[/td] [td][[++manager_path]][/td] [td]C:/xampp/htdocs/revo/manager/[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Manager URL[/td] [td][[++manager_url]][/td] [td]/revo/manager/[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Processors path[/td] [td][[++processors_path]][/td] [td]C:/xampp/htdocs/revo/core/model/modx/processors/[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Assets path[/td] [td][[++assets_path]][/td] [td]C:/xampp/htdocs/revo/assets/[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Assets URL[/td] [td][[++assets_url]][/td] [td]/revo/assets/[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Connectors path[/td] [td][[++connectors_path]][/td] [td]C:/xampp/htdocs/revo/connectors/[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Connectors URL[/td] [td][[++connectors_url]][/td] [td]/revo/connectors/[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]URL Scheme[/td] [td][[++url_scheme]][/td] [td]http://[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]HTTP Host[/td] [td][[++http_host]][/td] [td]localhost[/td][/tr]
[/table]

Groan. Thanks Bob for summarizing these. I wish they’d stop changing so I could code instead of retrofit.

Ok, those placeholders ARE still there, and they work (at least site_url still works), but they do NOT appear in the System Settings. They are derived from the config file.

Just in case anyone finds this, these still all work.

site_url, base_url (and various other settings) are calculated at run-time (or set explicitly) in the config file unless you explicitly add a site_url system (or context) setting to your installation to override those. It has never been part of the installation by default.

Quote from: opengeek at May 12, 2014, 07:48 AM

site_url, base_url (and various other settings) are calculated at run-time (or set explicitly) in the config file unless you explicitly add a site_url system (or context) setting to your installation to override those. It has never been part of the installation by default.

Jason, can they be treated like, say, site_name, or should we generally avoid them in code?

Quote from: shorewalker at May 12, 2014, 06:20 PM

Quote from: opengeek at May 12, 2014, 07:48 AM

site_url, base_url (and various other settings) are calculated at run-time (or set explicitly) in the config file unless you explicitly add a site_url system (or context) setting to your installation to override those. It has never been part of the installation by default.

Jason, can they be treated like, say, site_name, or should we generally avoid them in code?

That is the intention, to make them available like any other System, Context, or User Settings.

Thanks opengeek.