Get current alias path or link

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wendy Reply #1, 20 years, 9 months ago

Hi, can sombody guide me on how to fetch alias path using MODx API?

I build a new calendar snippet based on db, but I need to know, how to get index.php file with all the querystring needed or virtual alias path, depending on the site config. I just need to generate link automatically in my snippet, and appended a specific query string needed by my calendar snippet.

Hope somebody can guide me to the right direction.

Thanks

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opengeek Reply #2, 20 years, 9 months ago

You can use $modx->virtualDir to retrieve the current virtual directory when using alias paths.

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wendy Reply #3, 20 years, 9 months ago

How the code able to know whether it’s using alias path, alias, or plain querystring? Can we access the MODx configuration variables that was setup in the manager through modx object?

Thanks

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opengeek Reply #4, 20 years, 9 months ago

Absolutely Wendy, either directly in the snippet code:

$aliasPaths= $modx->config['use_alias_path'];

or even directly in the content (though not very useful with this particular setting):

[(use_alias_path)]

There is a list of available config settings at http://modxcms.com/modx-tags.html under Settings.

However, keep in mind that the virtualDir will only have a value if you have use_alias_path set to on, so you shouldn’t have to check.

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wendy Reply #5, 20 years, 9 months ago

Jason, I did this on my snippet

echo "documentIdentifier: ".$modx->documentIdentifier."<br />";
echo "virtualDir: ".$modx->virtualDir."<br />";
echo "config(use_alias_path): ".$modx->config['use_alias_path']."<br />";

And here is the result

documentIdentifier: 54
virtualDir:
config(use_alias_path): 1

I’m using Alias Path, and it was shown in the result, but the virtualDir contain nothing in there.

Could you help me with this?

Thanks

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wendy Reply #6, 20 years, 9 months ago

Another funny things that I found out

here is the code that I use for testing

echo "documentIdentifier: ".$modx->documentIdentifier."<br />";
echo "virtualDir: ".$modx->virtualDir."<br />";
echo "config(use_alias_path): ".$modx->config['use_alias_path']."<br />";
echo "method: ".$modx->documentMethod."<br />";
echo "method (function call): ".$modx->getDocumentMethod()."<br />";

Here is the result without any SEF being turned on

documentIdentifier: 54
virtualDir:
config(use_alias_path): 0
method: id
method (function call): id

Here is the result without any alias or alias path being turned on, so using friendly url

documentIdentifier: 54
virtualDir:
config(use_alias_path): 0
method: id
method (function call): alias

Here is the result with alias turn on, but not the alias path

documentIdentifier: 54
virtualDir:
config(use_alias_path): 0
method: id
method (function call): alias

Here is the result from everything being turned on

documentIdentifier: 54
virtualDir:
config(use_alias_path): 1
method: id
method (function call): alias

What do you think about the result?
I’m investigating the code right now, hope I found something usefull to figure out the reason behind this.

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wendy Reply #7, 20 years, 9 months ago

So the getDocumentObject() method will never reach the search using alias, which is that’s not a big deal, because it will be redundant to search using alias, if the parser able to get documentidentifier as an id all the time. If this is what it suppose to be, than we can cleaning up some code for that method.

So nothing wrong with setting all the method to "id" before it starts to fetch the document object.

Sorry if I use this forum as a place for me to take anote

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Mitch Reply #8, 20 years, 9 months ago

Quote from: wendy at Dec 22, 2005, 05:09 PM

I just need to generate link automatically in my snippet, and appended a specific query string needed by my calendar snippet.

If you just want to create a link to the current page with a querystring you could just use:

$modx->makeUrl($modx->documentObject[’id’], ’’, ’somevar=123&anothervar=456’);

The first param is the documentid to create a link to
The second one is called alias, but I never used it
The third parameter is the querystring

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wendy Reply #9, 20 years, 9 months ago

Cool, that helps a lot.

Thanks Mitch.

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wendy Reply #10, 20 years, 9 months ago

Btw, I misunderstand the virtualdir as the complete file path plus the filename.

After reading the document parser code, I just realize what will be returned by the virtualdir vars.

Sorry for making such a hassle.

Thanks for assisting me jason and mitch. I’m looking forward to bother you guys again in the future

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