How not to output alias of document root? (friendly urls)

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Kai Reply #1, 14 years, 8 months ago

Maybe a newbie question?

With friendly urls in modx evo, I use

<h1><a href="[(site_url)][~[*id*]~]">[*longtitle*]</a></h1>

in a template.

However, as the root document has no alias (and I don't want to give it one to "stay" on root), I get this output:

<h1><a href='mydomain.com/1'>Page title here!</a></h1>

Is there any way to do that without a snippet?

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microcipcip Reply #2, 14 years, 8 months ago

I think you should use only this:

<h1><a href="[~[*id*]~]">[*longtitle*]</a></h1>

Do you have the base tag in your <head> section?

<base href="[(site_url)]" />

You may also use PHx plugin to hide the ID when the output is 1, for example:

<h1><a href="[(site_url)][+phx:if=`[*id*]`:is=`1`:then=``:else=`[~[*id*]~]`+]">[*longtitle*]</a></h1>

[ed. note: microcipcip last edited this post 14 years, 8 months ago.]

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Kai Reply #3, 14 years, 8 months ago

Thanks for your reply.

As I always have full paths, I have not used the base tag yet. Will do so as this fixes my problem.

Thanks for letting me know about PHx, it is new to me!

I guess I will end up using though a little snippet that outputs the full url via:

<?php
$docID = $modx->documentIdentifier;
if($docID==1) {
  return $modx->config['site_url'];
}
else {
  return $modx->makeUrl($docID, '', '', 'full');
}
?>