The official way to get the route pattern?

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1

Sometimes I need to get the matched pattern from a route.

It can be done like this:

kirby()->routes([
    [
        'pattern' => ['jens', 'erik'],
        'action'  => function() {
            echo $this->kirby->request()->path()->first(); // jens
        }
    ],
]);

Is this the official way to do it? I think it’s quite long. I would prefer to have it like:

echo $this->pattern();

But it looks like with $this I get the full kirby object so $this->pattern would not make sense there.

2

Don’t know what your are doing with the $this variable, but this should work:

kirby()->routes([
    [
        'pattern' => ['jens', 'erik'],
        'action'  => function() {
          echo kirby()->route()->pattern();
        }
    ],
]);
3

Ahh, that’s better. I also found out that it’s possible to use $this->kirby->route()->pattern() but it’s longer.

My full route now looks like this:

<?php
global $kirby;

foreach(page('static')->children() as $item) {
    $pattern[] = $item->slug();
}

$kirby->routes([
    [
        'pattern' => $pattern,
        'action'  => function() {
            $uid = 'static' . '/' . kirby()->route()->pattern();
            return site()->visit($uid);
        }
    ],
]);
4

What about this?

$slugs = page('static')->children()->pluck('slug');

$kirby->routes([
    [
        'pattern' => '(' . implode('|', $slugs) . ')',
        'action'  => function($slug) {
            $uid = 'static' . '/' . $slug;
            return site()->visit($uid);
        }
    ],
]);

That’s probably the more official way to do this.

But apart from that: I have noted the idea to provide the route object as $this for Kirby 3. We will still need to check if that even makes sense though (maybe it breaks another use-case).

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5

Yeah, that’s a nice way of solving this, didn’t think of converting the array to a placeholder…