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5 posts by 2 authors in: Forums > CMS Builder
Last Post: February 4, 2013 (RSS)
By gversion - February 3, 2013
Hello,
I have created a section editor called "web_pages" and the detail page is "page.php".
I have created several records for different web pages I would like to display. For example an "About us" page, a "Contact us" page and a "Services" page.
I realise I can create individual PHP files for each record/web page and just set them to have a limit of 1 and then state where num=X
'limit' => '1',
'where' => 'num=1',
However, I was wondering if it's possible to create URLs using the single file "page.php". So I could have the following URLS:
about.php is in fact page.php?num=1
contact.php is in fact page.php?num=2
services.php is in fact page.php?num=3
Is it possible to achieve this with cmsBuilder? With Wordpress this is the Permalinks function...
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thank you,
Greg
Hi Greg,
This is possible, and should be fairly straight forward to do. You can use a getRecord function to get the record number from the URL and get the appropriate record.
// load record from 'blog'
list($web_pages, $blogMetaData) = getRecords(array(
'tableName' => 'web_pages',
'where' => whereRecordNumberInUrl(0),
'loadUploads' => true,
'allowSearch' => false,
'limit' => '1',
));
$page= @$web_pages[0]; // get first record
if (!$page) { dieWith404("Record not found!"); } // show error message if no record found
Let me know if you have any other questions on setting up this system.
Thanks!
Greg
PHP Programmer - interactivetools.com
By gversion - February 4, 2013
Hi Greg,
Thanks for your response. I have inserted the code you provided into "page.php".
Can you give me an example of how I set up a link please?
I would like to display the content of the "About" record, which can be accessed at "/page.php?num=1" with the URL "/about.php".
I am not clear on how to change the filename from "page.php?num=1" to "about.php"? Do I need to use .htaccess to achieve this?
Thanks,
Greg
Hi Greg,
You could create a list of links to the individual pages like this:
// load records from 'web_pages'
list($links, $linkMetaData) = getRecords(array(
'tableName' => 'web_pages',
'loadUploads' => true,
'allowSearch' => true,
));
?>
<?php foreach($links as $link): ?>
<a href="page.php?<?php echo urlencode($link['title']).'-'.$link['num']; ?>" ><?php echo $link['title']; ?></a><br/>
<?php endforeach;
?>
You would need to create the individual htaccess rules if you want to change the name of the page that appears in the URL. If you look at my post on this thread:
I've added a link to a site that will generate the rules for you. Although you could also try using the system suggested by zaba.
Thanks!
Greg
PHP Programmer - interactivetools.com
By gversion - February 4, 2013
Hi Greg,
Mnay thanks for your help. I am now up and running.
Regards,
Greg