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Answered In Manager Interface, how to get URL of an action?

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    jarofgreen Reply #1, 12 years, 10 months ago
    I'm writing some custom manager pages, and I would like to link from one directly to the other.

    When you add an action in the system, you specify a Controller and a Namespace. This is then given an ID, which becomes the URL. eg /manager/?a=78

    Basically, given a Namespace and Controller, in PHP how can I get the action ID so I can construct a link to it?

    I notice there is an "modAction" table - can I just look up the ID from that, or is there a better way?

    Thanks,
    James

    This question has been answered by jarofgreen. See the first response.

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      Mark Hamstra Reply #2, 12 years, 10 months ago
      In PHP you should be able of doing this:

      $a = $modx->actions['mynamespace:foo/bar']


      but keep in mind that in 2.3 actions are deprecated, and you can instead link to /manager/?a=foo/bar&namespace=mynamespace
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        jarofgreen Reply #3, 12 years, 10 months ago
        So I'm on 2.2 ... but I don't have $modx->actions? I did however find this:

        	public function getURL($controller) {
		foreach($this->modx->actionMap as $action) {
			if ($action['namespace'] == 'whisky' && $action['controller'] == $controller) {
				return '/manager/?a='.$action['id'];
			}
		}
	}


        Which seems to work ... thanks for pointing me in the right direction!
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          Mark Hamstra Reply #4, 12 years, 10 months ago
          Oops, I meant actionMap. I mixed up the javascript and php APIs there, but glad you found it smiley
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            BobRay Reply #5, 12 years, 10 months ago
            In theory, this would be all you'd need:

            $actionId = $modx->actions[$controller . '/' , $namespace]
return '/manager/?a='.$actionId;


            IIRC, I've had it fail, however.

            This should always work:

            $actions = $this->modx->request->getAllActionIDs('core');
$actionId = $actions[$controller . '/' , $namespace];
return '/manager/?a='.$actionId;



            I think this would be faster than crawling through all the actions.
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