Hi guys!
Hope you can help me. I want to achieve the following:
I need to email my site to different people. Most content is the same, except for one text. I already set up routes, so “example.org/name1”, “example.org/name2”, etc. will show the same site. I have used the possibility to send custom args with the reroute. Now my idea was to get the text like this: <?php echo $customarg->text() ?>
This is (of course?) not working. Outsource to a snippet doesn’t work either (If I only use ONE snippet)
I know that it would work if I would use a new snippet for every name – but than I have to do this for like 30 or so. This would be cluttering, also never repeat yourself!
The folders (name1 with name1.txt, name2 with name2.txt and so on) are invisible by the way.
Maybe there is an even smarter way to achieve what I need?
Thank you very much in advance
Cheers!
kwalx
What is $customarg in your code snippet and where does it come from? To be honest I don’t quite understand your setup, so a few more implementation details would be great.
As I said I used the routing feature in the config.php.
It looks kinda this: array( 'pattern' => 'name1', 'action' => function() { $data = array('fullname' => 'The Name of Person', 'mininame' => 'name1'); return array('somewhere', $data); }}
In the template “somewhere” I can now adress $fullname and $mininame as custom variables.
The full name is used to address the viewer (“hello The Name of Person”); where the short name should be used as a variable to get the text from a folder with the same name. This is where I don’t succeed (“get content from more than one page” -> we are on the page “somewhere”, but the URL states page “name1”.)
I hope you can understand it now.
This solution isn’t that great anyway; I’m unhappy with it, because there are now many arrays like this one, just with different names. They point all to the same path…
But as I said: maybe this is all too complicated and there is much nicer way to do want I want.
In case someone else has a similar problem: You can get the page like this:
$data = array('fullname' => 'The Name of Person', 'namePage' => page('name1'));
The template can then use $namePage->text() to access the data.
An easier solution that doesn’t require a route for every person would be to use URL params like /something/user:name1. Kirby will then automatically load the something page and you can access the value from the URL using param('user'). No routes required.
PS: Please post your code using Markdown code blocks in the future. They use three backticks at the start and end of the block on separate lines. They will preserve indentation and also support syntax highlighting like in my code block above.
Are you on Windows? If so, you need to use semicolons instead of colons: /something/user;name1
If you need to generate these URLs programmatically, it might make sense to use url::paramSeparator(). It will return either ; or : depending on the system.
Please also make sure to validate the value of the user param. Otherwise visitors will be able to use any value (= access any page), which could be a security issue depending on your code.
Do you mean from page to page? You could do this with a lot of effort, but an easier way would probably be to store the username in a session variable (using s::set()). If the param is set, it will overwrite the session variable and then the templates can use the session without having access to the param.
