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Blog - sectionSlug

How would i go about getting the section slug into a link in a blog template. My initial assumption was that I could use

<perch:blog id="sectionSlug" />

But sectionSlug doesn;'t seem to be exposed in that way.

Any thoughts?
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  • 7 years ago
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

7 years ago

It should be - can you tell us more about the context?
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7 years ago

The Blog on the site I am developing is in two sections - "news" and "blog" Each with their own pages at the URLs /news/ and /blog/ respectively.

This all works fine, apart from when you add archive/tag/category links into the sidebar, as my site makes use of a base tag. So these links goto archive.php?=xxxx relative to the root of the site. So I need to add the sectionSlug to the generated link so that it is /news/archive.php?=xxxx etc.

This is the code I am using for example in month_month_link.html template

<a href="/<perch:blog id="sectionSlug" />/archive.php?year=...

but this generates the link

<a href="//archive.php?year=....

not

<a href="/news/archive.php?year=

as expected.

Using Perch 2.4.9 (planning on upgrading to 2.5 today) PHP 5.4.14 MySQL 5.1.71-log Installed apps: content (2.4.9), perch_mailchimp (2.0.1), perch_blog (4.0.3)

I'll update to Perch 2.5 and Blog 4.1 respectively and see if that helps
Now Media

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7 years ago

All updated and still the same. Nice to see the Assets stuff though. This is going to be a brilliant addition :)
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

7 years ago

Which page functions are you using to output this template?
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7 years ago 
<?php perch_blog_categories(); ?>
<?php perch_blog_tags(); ?>
<?php perch_blog_date_archive_months(); ?>
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

7 years ago

Try this at the top of your page:

PerchSystem::set_var('sectionSlug', 'news');
Now Media

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7 years ago

Perfect. Thanks Drew :)

I may be back with more questions before this build is out ;)