how to get the url of a specified page from its alias or id [SOLVED]

[isaacd]

I would like to be able to have some way to get the url of a page with certain alias, or ID. I would like to be able to specify an alias/id and then get the url of that page.

Thanks in advance.
    Isaac.

[jmcgin51]

not sure exactly what you're asking.

if your page alias is "home", then the url for that page is

http://www.yourdomain.tld/index.php?page=home

or, if you're using pretty URLs

http://www.yourdomain.tld/home.html (or .php, or .whatever)

I'm assuming you already know all of this, and are looking for something else, but I'm not sure what...

[isaacd]

I have pretty URLs set up like this:
-Hierarchy enabled
-No page extension

I would like to be able to get the url of a page simply by providing an alias. I would like the url to include the hierarchy. Conceptually, something like this:


{get_page_url alias="mission" assign="$url"}
{$url}

And then that would display this:


http://www.trilliumcharterschool.org/about/mission


I would just add the page alias on the end of http://www.trilliumcharterschool.org but I need hierarchy in the url (ie in the example above, I need /about before /mission).

[nhaack]

If you have the alias already at hand, why not use cms_selflink?

E.g.

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{cms_selflink page=$the_alias}

   or

{cms_selflink page="mission"}

This will generate a link to the corresponding page, using the CMSMS hierarchy settings. It is also possible to only receive the href value or to specify the text used for the link.  E.g.

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{cms_selflink href="mission"}

Just check the information that comes with the tag. It will tell you about the options available - it's a very versatile tag.

Best
Nils

[isaacd]

I am not looking for a link, I am looking for a variable, so I can use an if statement. Something like this:

{if $url == "blah"}
do something
{else}
do something else
{/if}

This has to be a URL. I can not  use an alias.

Thanks.

[Jeff]

Then use the 'href' parameter and use {capture} if you need it in a variable.

[nhaack]

Or use the assign parameter of the cms_selflink tag

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{cms_selflink href="mission" assign="what"}

{if $what== "http://...."}
do something
{else}
do something else
{/if}

again, most of the core tags and module and many other tags and module have enough documentation to get things going. Please read such stuff.

Best
Nils

[isaacd]

{cms_selflink href="the page" assign="url"} worked for me. Thanks.