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id of site root

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    michalc Reply #1, 18 years, 6 months ago
    Hi,

    I’m trying to make a link in my template so that some pages link to the root, at /, and some pages link to some other page. A simple template variable seems the way to go here, with the id of the page to link to. However, I realise that I don’t know the id of the site root. I’ve tried 0 with no success.

    I can use the id of the document that is presented as the root (e.g. by using [(site_start)]), but as I am using friendly urls, the alias of the of that document ends up in the address bar, which I would prefer didn’t.

    Any suggestions?

    Michal.

    Edit: put in bit about [(site_start)])
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      michalc Reply #2, 18 years, 6 months ago
      Ok... I’ve found a way of getting the link. To make the URL, unstead of [~[*TVOfIDToLinkTo*]~] in the template, I make a small snippet
      <?php
if ( $id == $modx->config['site_start'] ) {
  $output = $modx->config['site_url'];
}
else {
  $output = $modx->makeUrl($id);
}
return $output;
?>

      and I use &id=`[*TVOfIDToLinkTo*]` in the call to the snippet.

      Is there maybe a simpler way?
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        sottwell Reply #3, 18 years, 6 months ago
        <a href="[(site_url)]"> maybe?
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          michalc Reply #4, 18 years, 6 months ago
          Quote from: sottwell at Apr 09, 2008, 07:29 AM

          <a href="[(site_url)]"> maybe?
          That would give a link to the root, but on some other pages I would like a like to another document. Actually, my setup is more specific (which maybe I should have mentioned in my original post): this is (a simplified version of) my layout

          -Doc 1
          -Doc 2
          -Doc 3
          -Doc 4
          |-Doc 5
          |-Page 6

          On Pages 1 to 3, I would like the link to be to the site root, which is actually Doc 1, but without the alias of Doc 1 showing in the address bar. On pages 4 to 6, I would like a link to Doc 4. Now, having [(site_url)] would be good for pages 1 to 3, but would show the wrong link in Docs 4 to 6. I also looked into putting [!UltimateParent!]. This would be good for Docs 4 to 6, and Doc 1, but Docs 2 and 3 would link to themselves, and not to Doc 1 as I would like.

          I thought of just having a TV with the ID of the document to link to say TVOfIDToLinkTo, and putting [~[*TVOfIDToLinkTo*]~] in the link, but for links to the site root (which is doc 1), the alias of that document became part of the link. I tried treating the site root as doc 0, but that resulted in a "0" as the alias for the document in the link. Thus my TV+custom snippet solution.

          Michal.
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            sottwell Reply #5, 18 years, 6 months ago
            I would use a TV with @INHERIT. The value for 1-3 would be 1 (or [(site_start)] maybe), the value for 4 would be 4, and all of its children would inherit that.
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              Eoler Reply #6, 18 years, 6 months ago
              Quote from: sottwell at Apr 10, 2008, 04:53 AM

              I would use a TV with @INHERIT. The value for 1-3 would be 1 (or [(site_start)] maybe), the value for 4 would be 4, and all of its children would inherit that.

              maybe some devilish PHx tricks (if id = UltimateParent then site_start else UltimateParent) could be used to save from creating that TV...