Forum OpenACS Q&A: Function for current page URL

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1: Function for current page URL
Posted by Tim Adler on 06/11/03 03:58 PM
Hi there everyone!

The IT devil, the heat and something evil ate our production and templating system's harddrives.
The support guys weren't able to restore some precious little code I wrote. So again...but I can't remember some bits...

I need a function that returns the actual pages url. Starting form the servername of course. I browsed the API but nothing looked familiar.
I can remember that I had probs with some sites requiring variables. Is there perhaps also a way to get all set parameters as a preformated String?

Thx, for your help!

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2: Re: Function for current page URL (response to 1)
Posted by Tilmann Singer on 06/11/03 04:07 PM
ad_return_url will return something like "/path/to/page?x=1&y=2" - hope that is what you need.
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3: Re: Function for current page URL (response to 2)
Posted by Tim Adler on 06/11/03 04:17 PM
Thx for the fast answer. But that doesn't seem to work. 

invalid command name "ad_return_url"
I guess this is because we are using an older implementation of OpenACS. (The Siemens ShareNet one [and yeah I'm a little bit pi**ed by it ;)])

Any other guess perhaps. I think it was something with ad_page....but I dunno really.

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4: Re: Function for current page URL (response to 1)
Posted by Dirk Gomez on 06/11/03 04:22 PM

[ad_conn url] IIRC

You can most certainly also backport ad_return_url by just cut and pasting it from HEAD.

Actually, the ShareNet code is not older than OpenACS, it's just very much forked and based on OpenACS 4.0a. (But - FORKED)

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5: Re: Function for current page URL (response to 1)
Posted by Rocael Hernández Rizzardini on 06/11/03 04:22 PM
maybe you are looking for ad_conn
have a look here, at the bottom for more info:
https://openacs.org/doc/openacs-4-6-3/request-processor.html
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6: Re: Function for current page URL (response to 1)
Posted by Dirk Gomez on 06/11/03 04:30 PM
Tim, just wanna point out that you should also find a doc subsite that fits your code version on your server at http://servername/doc. Give it a try.
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7: Re: Function for current page URL (response to 1)
Posted by Jun Yamog on 06/11/03 04:46 PM
Hi Tim,

In case if its any help.  We where able to successfully backport (cut and paste) ad_return_url to a 4.1.1 site.

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8: Re: Function for current page URL (response to 7)
Posted by Tim Adler on 06/11/03 04:57 PM
@jun: Yeah, thx...I'm already STRGing+C+V it ;)!

@rocael: That was my precious little func, thx. I think I'll go and try with the new one.

@dirk: Yeah found that too, but I wasn't able to find any func-description that sounded suitable and/or familiar. I also had logging turned off in my IRClient so couldn't get i from there either)!

Hopefully my copy and pasteing works.

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9: Re: Function for current page URL (response to 8)
Posted by Tim Adler on 06/12/03 09:15 AM
Code succesfully stolen ;)!