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1. ogicu812
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Is there a function that would generate the url of a page? I would like it to accept the page title as a parameter and have it return the url for the page, taking into account whether or not "pretty permalinks" are being used.

   For example:
   <?php echo mystery_func('my_page_title'); //#=> http://localhost/?page_id=55 ?>

   I saw the get_page_by_title function in the Codex, but it returns an object and I can't find where its methods/attributes are documented. Also, I saw the get_page_uri function but that just returns the page title given a page_id.

2. iridiax
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   What are you trying to do? Here are some things to look at:

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/query_posts#Retrieve_a_Particular_Page

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_permalink

3. ogicu812
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Thanks for the reply. I've created some custom pages using custom templates. On some of them I have included links that need to go to other pages and also a form submission where the form action is the url of another page. I would like some way of generating the url as shown in my original post. I tried the following but it starting messing up how posts were displayed in WordPress 2.8:

   function get_page_url_by_pagename($pagename) {
     $p = query_posts("pagename=$pagename");
     $p = $p[0];
     return $p->guid;
   }

   Because I need this functionality outside "The Loop", the_permalink() functions, etc. won't work for me.

   Any thoughts?

4. ogicu812
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Got it...

   The query_posts() method modifies "The Loop". You can use the get_posts() method instead:

   function get_page_url_by_pagename($pagename) {
     $p = get_posts("pagename=$pagename");
     $p = $p[0];
     return $p->guid;
   }

5. ogicu812
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Even better... (handles permalinks)

   function get_page_url_by_pagename($pagename) {
     $p = get_posts("pagename=$pagename");
     $p = $p[0];
     $url = get_permalink($p);
     return $url;
   }

6. Otto
   Tech Ninja
   Posted 2 years ago #

   If you know the page title, you can do this:

   $page = get_page_by_title('Title of Page');
   $link = get_permalink($page->ID);

7. harianto
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   i love to make things very short using Otto42 example
   

   function get_permalink_by_title($title) {
     return get_permalink(get_page_by_title($title)->ID);
   }

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