Getting a page title from urlSegment

[Marty Walker]

Hi,

I'm working on a simple products site and I'm using url segments to filter the products by category. There's no problems getting the products that way. What I'm trying to do is get the category title for the url I'm on. eg: /products/19th-century <- urlSegment

<?php
      if($input->urlSegment1) {
      $urlcat = $pages->get("/categories/")->find("name=$input->urlSegment1");
      echo "<h3>Category: <i>"  .  $urlcat  .  "</i></h3>";
      }
?>

 So $urlcat gets me the category ID. How would I go about getting the title of the category? I've tried $urlcat->title to no avail.

Cheers

Marty

[teppo]

Just guessing, but could it be that $urlcat is actually PageArray? Try $urlcat->first()->title instead (or change that "find" to "get".)

[diogo]

You are using a find to get the page. That gives you a page array instead of the page object. for trying, $urlcat->first()->title should do the job, but you should change your find to a get. (on mobile)

edit: teppo, not fair, I'm in disadvantage here

[Marty Walker]

Thanks chaps. It was indeed a page array. Silly me.

[diogo]

make sure you sanitize that value before using it in the selector and throw a 404 if the page is not found.

[Marty Walker]

@diogo. Yes I had a thought to do that. Here it is for anyone else who might need something similar.

<?php
      if($input->urlSegment1) {
         $name = $sanitizer->pageName($input->urlSegment1);
         $urlcat = $pages->get("/categories/")->find("name=$name");
         echo "<h3>Category: <i>"  .  $urlcat->first()->title  .  "</i></h3>";
      }

?>

[diogo]

At the computer now. It would be more efficient if you would do this instead:

$urlcat = $pages->get("/categories/")->get("name=$name"); // <- get instead of find
echo "<h3>Category: <i>"  .  $urlcat->title  .  "</i></h3>";

or this: 

$urlcat = $pages->get("/categories/$name");
echo "<h3>Category: <i>"  .  $urlcat->title  .  "</i></h3>";

[Marty Walker]

OK. Thanks for that. So get is being more 'direct' than find?

[diogo]

Get doesn't build the array in PHP, it just gets the requested page from the database and creates only that object.