How to return the weblink value of a document with ID X?

Hi,

I was hoping someone could give me the one liner for returning the weblink value of a document instead of the "internal path". This will probably look stupid but I thought it would be something like



But this obviously doesn’t work. I can’t remember where but I remember seeing something about returning the weblink value instead of default behaviour.

Take a look at the makeURL function.

The weblink URL is just stored in the ’content’ field, there’s no special ’weblink’ field or anything. If you adjust your code above then that should work okay.

Oops, I forgot about weblinks and thought sal was asking for the way to return a doc’s URL from code. My bad!

Guess you should do:

$docid = ’12’;
$url = $modx->getDocument($docid, ’content’, 1);
$url = $url[’content’];

BTW, $url = $modx->getPageInfo($docid,1, ’content’); will work too.

garryn, which one is the lightest method? I assume it’s getPageInfo() because it queries the DB directly and doesn’t call getDocuments(), is this correct?