$page->path always has trailing slash in spite of template settings

[DrQuincy]

I'm not sure if I'm missing something glaringly obvious here but if you set URLs (not segments) to not have trailing slashes you will still get one at the end when accessing $page->path.

So $page->path for my sitemap.xml file is /sitemap.xml/. Yes if you visit /sitemap.xml/ it redirects to /sitemap.xml — but why doesn't it just return /sitemap.xml? This will end up adding an awful lot of unnecessary requests.

Is this intended behaviour?

I have also noticed the API only seems to work with forward slashes too (e.g. parent=/foo/bar/, not parent=/foo/bar) — but I get that as a design decision since the the trailing slash setting is effectively abstract from that.

[Robin S]

The trailing slash setting is something that applies to URLs rather than paths, i.e. $page->url rather than $page->path.

Related GitHub issue with response from Ryan: https://github.com/processwire/processwire-issues/issues/273

 

[DrQuincy]

Ah, thanks, yes, that explains it.

I always assumed $page->url was the full URL but that is actually httpUrl;

var_dump(wire('pages')->get('/sitemap.xml/')->path); // "/sitemap.xml/"
var_dump(wire('pages')->get('/sitemap.xml/')->url); // "/sitemap.xml"
var_dump(wire('pages')->get('/sitemap.xml/')->httpUrl); // "http://site.local/sitemap.xml"

Thanks, I will use ->url in future. ?

[Clarity]

Hello, @DrQuincy!

I've noticed that you've used var_dump() for dumping variables. You can use TracyDebugger instead. It will allow you to work much faster:

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[DrQuincy]

Thanks for the tip. ?