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Are URL segments indexable & search engine optimizable? Site-mappable? With or without SEO meta tags rendered in the native site template rendering the URL segment, drawing page data from a separate PW installation? if only rendering when the urlSegment1 matches the name of a page of a specified template with the same parent? I don't know how to test this locally. Thank you.

How to enable urlSegments runtime instead of persistent in template settings? And where to be loaded before the current page returns a 404 error? https://processwire.com/docs/front-end/how-to-use-url-segments/#how-do-you-enable-url-segments

Hello, i have an Photography page based on PW. Now is the Problem that the loading time is to long. Idea was to split every 20 images in to pages for Ajaxloading. I dont know how generate all 20 images a new URLsegment. I just cant get it. Thanks for advice

Hello my friends. Today I started working on my recipe website again and it was the turn to show recipes (pages) that has a specific category assigned in a field. In my NowKnow project for categories I used a parent page where inside of it I had the children and everything seemed to be super easy. This time, however, I decided to change the approach so I created a parent page Recipe categories and assigned to it my 'category' template. Inside the parent I added a few categories that I want to be able to select via PageReferrence field 'recipe_category'. The parent template would show all the categories represented by a title and an image - that part is done and works fine. Now what I am trying to achieve is to have a few recipes having the 'recipe_category' field equal to Bakery for example, and then when I point to the category URL to get only the recipes that have Breakfast selected in. From what I know the perfect approach to achieve that would be to use $input->urlSegment as to select the name of the category from the URL and then filter the pages adding to selectors: recipe_category=$category. Following Ryans earlier instructions about the urlSegment and an example found here in the forum, I got this code to fit my fields names: <?php if($input->urlSegment1 == 'category' && $input->urlSegment2) { $name = $sanitizer->pageName($input->urlSegment2); $category = $pages->get("template=categories-list, title=$name"); if($category->id) { $q = $pages->find("template=recipes-inner, recipe_category=$category"); } } ?> After adding the code, I enabled the URL segments for both: 'category' and 'category-list' templates. Browsing the URL for the Bakery category: http://food.pw/category/bakery/ (the domain name is not a typo, but PW is on my local server) I was supposed to get the $category to get the value of 'bakery'. However instead of that I am getting nothing. What am I missing in the big picture as I am sure it is again something silly but I spent almost the whole day trying to figure it out and still got no progress? P.S. trying to change the urlSegment number to 3 did not help either

Hi, I have a template to which I have assigned an Alternate Template filename. To the respective url I added two urlSegments '../edit/123' . In the url segment list I added : "edit" and "new", config->maxUrlSegments = 2. As long as I only add *one* url segment (edit), it works fine, but when I add two segments (.../edit/123) a blank page appears, without error message. The alternate template file is not even being evoked. what' s wrong here?

Hi guys, i was trying to implement SEO URL structure on my another processwire website. SEO team requested us to put .html on every pages. e.g http://www.mydomain.com/products.html and if click any product then it will like http://www.mydomain.com/products/product-one.html so after little bit research i find out it can be done with URLsegment option in template options. i checked on Allow URL Segment, said No to "Should page url end with slash" and said No to "Should URL segments end with a trailing slash? " but after all this setting we try to access the it is showing 404 page. i don't know why. Any help will be highly appreciate Thanks J

Hi, I'm quite sure to have read everything, doc and forums, about urlSegment, but I'm still not understanding how to use it. After have set my categories with this excellent post, I'm unable to fix url as I want. Page title | Template | actual url | url I want Categ-publi | parent_categ | categ-publi/article | publication/article -- Article | categories | Publication | basic-template | publication/example1 | publication/article/example1 -- example1 | publication | For which template I should activated urlSegment and in which template file I should add some code, probably something like this (which didn't work obviously)? if($input->urlSegment1 == 'publication') { echo $pages->get('/publication/$categ/')->render(); return; } else if($input->urlSegment1) { // throw a 404 throw new Wire404Exception(); } Thanks so much. Melanie

I have a project that uses a variant of the "main.inc" template strategy. All templates are set to use a single "main.php" file. That file uses output buffering to include page-specific views and insert them into a "base" template. Generally, this works great and allows me to structure my files exactly the way I want. However, I've found that if I want to manually throw a Wire404Exception, it just bubbles up uncaught rather than being handled. The 404 handler works fine in instances where I'm not calling it manually, but fails otherwise, specifically when I'm dealing with urlSegments. I'm not that familiar with PHP's exception handling in general nor ProcessWire's exception handling in particular, so I'm not sure how to further troubleshoot. Some abbreviated pseudo-code to illustrate: main.php: ob_start(); include('./views/'.$view.'/'.$view.'.inc'); $layout = ob_get_clean(); ob_start(); include('./views/base/base.inc'); $template = ob_get_clean(); echo $template; With this setup, if I try to throw a Wire404Exception within any "view", the exception isn't handled, so logged in admins see the error trace, and regular users get an ISE. e.g., view.inc: if($input->urlSegment1){ // look for stuff... if(!$match){ throw new Wire404Exception(); } } Any thoughts?

Hello to the community, I'm facing a rather weird issue on my PW site with the pages2pdf module and urlSegments. Maybe one of you will help me figure this out. I have this code : // PDF Download link if (!$input->get['pages2pdf'] && $user->isSuperuser()) { echo '<a class="pdfLink btn btn-info" href="' . $page->url.$input->urlSegment1.'/'.$input->urlSegment2.'/'.$input->urlSegment3. '?sort='.$sort.'&pages2pdf=1">Get PDF</a>'; } My urlSegments are as follow : 1='all', 2='6bc', 3='12345'. In other words, I want to generate a PDF file listing 'all' events recorder for the team '6bc' during the time period id '12345'. It all works fine on my localhost site, but when I am online, I get an 'unknown selector' error instead of my PDF file. I have managed to find out that if I replace my urlSegment2 with an integer value, it works ! Why and how is this possible, I have absolutely no idea... I have other pages on my site where it all works fine with strings... I wonder, then, if I shoud go and replace all of my 'logic' : use query strings instead of urlSegments? Anyway, if anybody could give me a clue to solve this issue I would greatly appreciate Thanks in advance.

Hi friends, Being a tiny bit lazy, I copied the $input->urlSegment[n] code from the description of "Allow URL segments" in the template settings. Up to 3 URL segments are supported after the page URL. These may be any combination of lowercase ASCII letters (a-z), numbers (0-9), dashes and underscores. You can access the URL segments from your template API code by referencing the $input->urlSegment(n) function or $input->urlSegment[n] property (replacing [n] with 1, 2 or 3). However, that did not work (actually, it displays a character at position n). I scanned through up my older code and saw that I used $input->urlSegment(n) elsewhere and it worked just fine. So, the question is probably to Ryan: does the description of "Allow URL segments" need an update? Otherwise, please correct me.

Hi, I have a problem getting pagination working with urlSegments. I read the docs and the forum, and another issue comes up with sort of the same thing. The problem there was that baseUrl got set by options and was left empty, while in the code below, the baseUrl is first set by the module manager (or something deep down..) Anyhow, the problem is: my urlSegments wont get rendered in the link. I have the template setup correctly and the strange thing is, only the first part of the urlSegments shows up. Strange eh? All the others are added via $queryString I think because I added them to $input->whitelist(); But I'm not sure if this is necessary. Is it correct that normally, it would work out of the box because the urlSegments are part of the baseUrl? And, if I read the code in MarkupPageArray.module line 146, where the baseUrl is set by default, I read: if(empty($options['baseUrl'])) $pager->setBaseUrl($this->page->url . ($this->page->urlSegment ? $this->page->urlSegment . '/' : '')); This seems wrong and the reason only the first urlSegment gets added. Or, should $page->urlSegment contain all segments? And if it doesn't what could be the problem? (btw: maxUrlSegments=4, default)

Dear all, Newbie here I've successfully installed the Blog Profile, and trying to modify the recent post widget. I use the $input->urlSegment1 to get the path of URL. But somehow it return nothing. I've checked the site/config.php and enable the Setup->Templates->URLs->Allow URL Segments? but still the the syntax return nothing. Is there something I missed here? Thanks.

Hi there, Simple question needs simple answer… I'm still a newby and trying to get my head round pw. I'm trying to access (and eventually get the path) to a particular page somewhere else in the tree, without knowing the complete path, only knowing the name of the page. I'm getting the name of the page with urlSegment. Code looks like this so far: $myPage=$input->urlSegment1; $pathToPage=$pages->find($myPage)->path; Played around with it, browsed the forum and failed embarassingly. Any suggestions? Thanks.

Hi, I've just set up urlSegments on my blog template so that /blog/category/news will list all the articles with the category of news My problem is that if (for some strange reason) a blog article gets called "category" then the subsequent pages will show 404s. Previously I had it set up so the categories would just show as urlSegment1 ie: blog/news but that would also cause a collision if an article gets called "news". Am sure there's something simple I'm missing here, perhaps I have to add a reserved word somewhere?

Hi guys, have been having an issue with pagination. It's a bit odd, I have it working fine as per Ryan's docs but when I get to a page2 of results, my categories don't display. I should add that my categories are generated at the top of the page in their own loop. The template also uses urlSegment to filter the results by category. I have added pagination to both the news template and also the categories template which get's called through urlSegment. On the main news page, pagination works but the categories come up empty when on the 2nd page. On the categories template, the pagination won't show at all, and I'm not sure why as it's pretty much an identical setup to the news template. Here's all the code, in case any of you can make sense of it.... Thanks. News index : <?php include("./header.inc"); ?> <div id="news_index" class="grey_gradient"> <?php if ($input->urlSegment1 !="") { include ("./categories.php"); } else { ?> <div id="news_top_bar"> <h5 id="news_header">Recent news items</h5> <?php $news_cats = $pages->find("template=news_category"); if ($news_cats) { ?> <ul id="news_cats"> <li>By category: </li> <?php foreach ($news_cats as $cat) { $numArticles = $pages->count("template=news_entry, news_category_link=$cat"); if ($numArticles > 0) { ?> <li><a href="<?php echo $page->url . $cat->name; ?>"><?php echo $cat->title; ?></a> / </li> <?php } ?> <?php } ?> </ul> <?php } ?> <div class="clear"></div><!-- /.clear --> </div><!-- /#news_top_bar --> <?php $news = $page->children("sort=-created, limit=3"); foreach ($news as $entry) { $class = "news_box"; if ($entry == $news->last()) { $class .= " news_box_last"; } ?> <div class="<?php echo $class; ?>"> <div class="news_index_text"> <h3><a href="<?php echo $entry->url; ?>"><?php echo $entry->title; ?></a></h3> <h6><?php echo $entry->entry_date; ?> by <?php echo $entry->createdUser->first_name . " " . $entry->createdUser->last_name; ?></h6> <?php if ($entry->summary) { echo "<p>" . $entry->summary . "</p>"; } else { $body_text = strip_tags($entry->body); $text = substr($body_text, 0, 300); echo "<p>$text...</p>"; } ?> <a href="<?php echo $entry->url; ?>" class="button">Read on</a> </div><!-- /.news_index_text --> <?php if ($entry->main_image) { $news_image = $entry->main_image->size(240,180); ?> <img src="<?php echo $news_image->url; ?>" width="<?php echo $news_image->width; ?>" height="<?php echo $news_image->height; ?>" alt="<?php echo $entry->title; ?>" class="small_frame" /> <?php } ?> <div class="clear"></div><!-- /.clear --> </div><!-- /.news_box --> <?php } ?> <?php // PAGINATION LINKS $pagination = $news->renderPager(); echo $pagination; ?> <?php } ?> </div><!-- /#news_index --> <?php include("./footer.inc"); ?> Categories.php : <?php $name = $sanitizer->pageName($input->urlSegment1); $category = $pages->find("template=news_category, name=$name"); $news_cats = $pages->find("template=news_category"); ?> <div id="news_top_bar"> <h5 id="news_header">Recent news items - <?php echo ucwords($name); ?></h5> <?php if ($news_cats) { ?> <ul id="news_cats"> <li>By category: </li> <?php foreach ($news_cats as $cat) { $numArticles = $pages->count("template=news_entry, news_category_link=$cat"); if ($numArticles > 0) { ?> <li><a href="<?php echo $page->url . $cat->name; ?>"><?php echo $cat->title; ?></a> / </li> <?php } ?> <?php } ?> </ul> <?php } ?> <div class="clear"></div><!-- /.clear --> </div><!-- /#news_top_bar --> <?php $news = $pages->find("template=news_entry, news_category_link=$category, limit=1"); foreach ($news as $entry) { $class = "news_box"; if ($entry == $news->last()) { $class .= " news_box_last"; } ?> <div class="<?php echo $class; ?>"> <div class="news_index_text"> <h3><a href="<?php echo $entry->url; ?>"><?php echo $entry->title; ?></a></h3> <h6><?php echo $entry->entry_date; ?> by <?php echo $entry->createdUser->first_name . " " . $entry->createdUser->last_name; ?></h6> <?php if ($entry->summary) { echo "<p>" . $entry->summary . "</p>"; } else { $body_text = strip_tags($entry->body); $text = substr($body_text, 0, 300); echo "<p>$text...</p>"; } ?> <a href="<?php echo $entry->url; ?>" class="button">Read on</a> </div><!-- /.news_index_text --> <?php if ($entry->main_image) { $news_image = $entry->main_image->size(240,180); ?> <img src="<?php echo $news_image->url; ?>" width="<?php echo $news_image->width; ?>" height="<?php echo $news_image->height; ?>" alt="<?php echo $entry->title; ?>" class="small_frame" /> <?php } ?> <div class="clear"></div><!-- /.clear --> </div><!-- /.news_box --> <?php } ?> <?php // PAGINATION LINKS $pagination = $news->renderPager(); echo $pagination; ?> I've just re-read part of the pagination docs here and have added "start=0, limit=n" to my news_index template so now categories are showing even on 2nd page. Still can't seem to get pagination showing on categories template though

Is there a way to echo a URL segment for example to use in the <title> tag? Eg: <title><?php echo $page->title; ?> | <?php echo $input->urlSegment(2); ?></title> The above code was my stab at it but I'm not sure if segments can be called in this way? Sorry, should point out that this is within a header.inc template