Generating urls in Garden

ddumont

Are there utilities for this?

My two examples:
I'd like to get the location of the rss image
/applications/dashboard/design/images/rss.gif

But I need a safe way of linking it in case the forum is in a subdirectory... etc...

I also need a safe way of generating a URL to get to a specific post.

Any ideas?

Linc

Url('/applications/dashboard/design/images/rss.gif') is probably what you want.

For a link to a discussion, you can simply do Url('/discussion/'.$DiscussionID) or you could do the full Url('/discussion/'.$DiscussionID.'/'.Gdn_Format::Url($DiscussionName))

ddumont

I'll try it out, thanks!

S

@ddumont
For images use Asset() not Url(), because Url() with rewrite.urls = off gives you index.php?p=applications/dashboard/design/images/rss.gif

For urls use Url(). I use Gdn_Format::Clean() for last part.

ddumont

@S can you give an example of using ::clean with URL?

S

Sure.

Url('/discussion/'.$DiscussionID.'/'.Gdn_Format::Clean($DiscussionName))

ddumont

Excellent. Thanks.

Do you know if this is necessary? I think I was copying some core vanilla code that did not use Clean on the discussion name.