Good morning everyone! I was wondering if it was easy to build a simple “Like”-feature with Kirby? Basically I have a blog and on the blogpost-page a user should be able to click a “Like”-button that increments a field in blogpost.txt by 1. I’m not worried about multiple clicks for now. I’ll take ca…

Since you are using ajax, you could register a route in your plugin and call the like function from there passing the uri as argument: kirby()->routes(array( array( 'pattern' => '(:all)/like', 'method' => 'POST', 'action' => function($uri) { // check if p…

Oh, that would be elegant, you’re right @pedroborges , thanks! Let me see if I can make this work!

Alright, I feel like I’m almost there, but it doesn’t work yet. site/plugins/like/like.php <?php kirby()->routes([ [ 'pattern' => "/like:(:any)", 'method' => 'POST', 'action' => function($uid) { $post = page('blog/' + $uid); try { $post->update(array( …

You are using the + operator instead of . (probably because you wrote JS before, happens to me all the time :smiley:): $post = page('blog/' . $uid); If it still doesn’t work, could you please request the URL directly in your browser without AJAX and check if there is any output?

Ah, true! Fixed the operator, still no luck with updating the likes count though. If I access http://localhost:3000/like:super-t in the browser it shows the homepage. I’ve set the blog-page to be the homepage and I’m omitting “blog” in the URLs of post-pages as explained here . Just in case that’s re…

Ah okay, I’ve changed that accordingly, but now when I open http://localhost:3000/like/super-t in the browser it redirects to the error page. I also get a 404 in the AJAX request.

Well, that probably depends on your other route that redirects blog URLs. Make sure to add the new route before that.

Hmm, okay strange. I removed all other routes, but still no luck unfortunately. I still get the 404 when I access http://localhost:3000/blog/like/super-t and in the AJAX call. Here’s the current plugin file: site/plugins/like/like.php <?php kirby()->routes([ [ 'pattern' => "/blog/like/(:an…

Have you tried to remove the post method and also the slash before ‘blog’ in your pattern?

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lukasbestle March 3, 2016, 1:37pm 12

Ah, I think Kirby parses that URL as a param.
The pattern "/like/(:any)" should work.

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