Is it possible to access the properties of a component e.g. blogPosts in the OnStart() function? If so, how?

title = "Blog Category"
url = "/blog/category/:slug/:page?"

[blogPosts]
categoryFilter = ":slug"
==
function onStart()
{
    // Access categoryFilter property
    $catfilter = ???
    ...
}
==

I can only access the plugin properties outside the function over twig like this:

{{ dump(this.page.components['blogPosts'].properties['postsPerPage']) }}

function onStart() {
    $this->page->components['blogPosts']
}

Hope this helps!

You can access it like this....

$this->blogPosts->postsPerPage;

Where blogPosts is the alias of the component you're trying to access. (In case you have multiple instances of a component on a page)

So if you gave your blogPosts an alias of newsArticles you would access it with...

$this->newsArticles->postsPerPage

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