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Routing within a single page app integration
To pull this off, first you’ll have to make sure all of your Element API endpoints begin with something consistent, like api/ or data/, etc.
Then create a route in craft/config/routes.php that will ...
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Get entry associated with current uri
Surprisingly, the Craft docs aren't super clear on this so I'll post a little info.
When you set up a Section in the Control Panel, you set the URI Format and Template fields to map to an entry ...
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Does Craft CMS have an API?
If you only need to create a JSON API for fetching existing entries, etc., check out the Element API plugin.
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Is environmental routing possible?
The routes.php config file doesn't support multi-environment setups in the manner that general.php or db.php does – in other words, your example code using a multidimensional array would throw an ...
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Routing within a single page app integration
In case someone uses Craft 3, this should work:
<?
return array(
'<url:(?!api\/).*>' => ['template' => 'index']
);
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How do I link an image to its own page?
In Craft assets do not get "their own page" by default, but you can easily create them with a Dynamic Route. So go to Settings → Routes and add a new route with a number token, e.g. assets/<number&...
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How to setup custom site routes created by user in plugin settings
You can use the registerSiteRoutes() hook in your plugin's primary class.
Assuming your custom URL formats are stored in an array in a plugin setting called customRoutes (use AttributeType::Mixed for ...
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Prettify search URL
You forgot to setup the routes for your search URLs.
In this case I’d recommend to use an advanced route with a regular expression, as it allows to use patterns that will ignore the slashes between ...
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Confused about tags
You told Craft to look for tags/_tag
And then you created templates/tags/_tags.html
Note you have no s on the end in the route definition, but you do in the template name.
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Resolving the $entry variable for custom routes somewhere but a Twig template
Alright, if you didn't already create a custom plugin I suggest you to visit Pluginfactory.io to create the boilerplate. Let's assume your plugin handle is awesome-plugin, just for testing purposes.
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Looping through returns nothing after using dynamic routes to get the entry type and category
{% if not entries %} never executes, even if i enter complete nonsense in the url.
You’re not ensuring that segmentCategory is a valid category slug anywhere. If it’s not, then category will get set ...
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Route token that includes forward slashes
The CP route settings don’t have a token for matching multiple URI segments. However you can pull it off from craft/config/routes.php instead:
return array(
'blog/(.+)' => 'path/to/template',
)...
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How can I call a controller method from the front-end using ajax
Make sure to check out the documentation on routing. Pay special attention to the part about action request(s).
In this example, I want to call a controller method via ajax on page load.
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Controller action redirection when called via route
You're mistaken about how redirectToPostedUrl works... That's designed to redirect from a form submission, when the redirect field was supplied:
<input type="hidden" name="redirect" value="page/to/...
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How to troubleshoot routes
Remove the / at the end of databases/ and it should work.
Technically, index.html is not required either, so you could just use library-database-demo-section.
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Can I open templates/routes other than 503 when Craft is offline?
I don't think it's possible using the System Status switch in Settings → General.
I had a similar requirement and solved it with a custom variable "maintenanceMode" in my config.php and added some ...
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Redirect entry type to another domain
The reason that you get that odd URL with the {% redirect %} tag is just because there's some whitespace at the beginning of the value returned from your helpers.msuLink() macro. Using the |trim ...
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Simple template routes with plugins
This is a tricky topic for a simple answer. Off the top of my head, there are two general approaches you may fall in for this. I'll keep my answer fairly broad:
URL-Enabled Elements
You can create ...
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Can I open one template/route when Craft is offline?
You can add a template called 503.html to your /templates folder. Craft will then use that template whenever the system is turned off, due to the HTTP status being set to 503 (service unavailable).
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Override a wildcard dynamic route template
Sort order matters, move the more specific route up and you should be good. Alternativly set it up in routes.php using some regular expressions.
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Routes to fake a Structure
The route/template for '/itinerary/name-of-itinerary' will be defined in the section's settings, so it's the others you need to deal with.
I'd add this route to your routes.php file:
'itinerary/(?P&...
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How do I link an image to its own page?
It's not clear what exactly you mean by 'its own page'
Do you want to have an entry for each image? or a twig template that displays that image?
When you access a page by default {{ entry.url }} ...
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check if a route segment matches a section entry type
Take a look at the {% exit %} tag. You should be able to do something very similar, since your search will return no results if the entry type does not exist.
{% set entries = craft.entries.type(...
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Multiple URL Formats per element type (Entries, Categories)
So semantically, I don’t love the URL format you’re coming up with. I’d like to see something like /gear/{category}/{entry}
This gives you a few benefits
it’s semantically readable…
it gives you ...
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Use of tag.slug instead of tag.title in a custom route
You do not have to change your route. Instead modify your template where you are linking the tag.
Instead of using
<a href="{{ siteUrl }}tags/{{ tag.title | url_encode }}">{{ tag.title }}, <...
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URL drops :8888 from localhost
I would try and put the port in your siteUrl config param:
'siteUrl' => 'http://localhost:8888',
Alternatively you might be able to use this though haven't tested it (I believe the php server ...
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Prettify search URL
If you go to Settings > Routes in the CP you're able to add routes with wildcard characters like:
/search/*
and then point that to a template.
You can also register site routes in a plugin if ...
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Wildcard subdomain for posts
It’s definitely possible. Here’s the gist:
Forget the whole subdomain idea, and start by getting everything working using a URI format like /client/<slug>.
Make all subdomain traffic get routed ...
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Variable "entrySlug" does not exist Routing
If I'm not mistaken, I don't think setting up the route via the CP does the fancy advanced rule stuff described here. You'll therefore want to do that via the config/routes.php file with something ...
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Good way to handle multisite fallback templates
You can create localized template files by placing them in a subfolder of templates/ named after the site handle.
See https://docs.craftcms.com/v3/dev/#template-localization for a full explanation.
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