Hey there,

I'm relatively new to October so maybe this is an easy one for you:

What I need is a page with a wildcard URL, e.g. http://example.com/magazine/* where * can be anything, also "something/something/something" So the page should be visible no matter what URL parameters are set after "/magazine/"

I tried to use an URL like this: /magazine/:param? according to https://octobercms.com/docs/cms/pages#configuration This works for URLs like /magazine/something (param = "something") but not /magazine/something/something (param should be "something/something") and this is what I need to figure out. I need param to store the string after /magazine/ no matter what it is and no matter how my URL parameters there are. Is there a way?

Thanks, Christian

Last updated 9 years ago

I figured if you know the maximum number of URL parameters you can do something like this for the page URL:

/magazine/:param1?/:param2?/:param3?

however, this doesn't solve the problem with an unknown number of parameters.

I don't think you can specify a wildcard value for an unknown number of params. You could either just pass a large number of optional params as per your answer above e.g. or you can use a different separator and then split them in the code:

/magazine/article-44-john smith-another param

url="/magazine/:params"
==
function onStart()
{
    $this['params'] = explode("-", $this->param('params'));
}
==
{% for p in params %}
        <li> {{ p }} </li>
{% endfor %}

Last updated 9 years ago

That also works, thanks.