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I’ve been looking at the docs and I see how to get all of the url segments as a variable.
http://expressionengine.com/public_beta/docs/templates/globals/url_segments.html

I also know how to get the site_url by itself.

but is there any kind of global var for the current page or url?

I know I could get it with CI or pure PHP, but I was sort of hoping there was an EE tag for it already.

Unfortunately there isn’t a variable for the current url.

If you know how many segments you’ll be working with you can do something like this:

{site_url}/{segment_1}/{segment_2}

If the number of segments won’t always be the same you can add conditionals:

{site_url}/{segment_1}/{if segment_2}{segment_2}/{/if}

I do agree that it would be nice to have a variable that does all this for you.

thanks for reply!

I’m throwing out this little plugin as a quickie fix

so you can effectively use these tags in your template
{exp:get_url:current_url} {exp:get_url:uri_string}

critiques are very welcome

<?php

if ( ! defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');

$plugin_info = array(
    'pi_name' => 'Get Url',
    'pi_version' => '1.0',
    'pi_author' => 'Flying Fish',
    'pi_author_url' => 'expressionengine.com',
    'pi_description' => 'Used to return the current all in full or all segments.',
    'pi_usage' => Get_url::usage()
);

class Get_url {

    function Get_url()
    {
        $this->EE =& get_instance();
    }

    function uri_string()
    {
        return $this->EE->uri->uri_string();
    }
    
    function current_url()
    {
        return $this->EE->functions->fetch_current_uri();
    }
    
    function usage()
    {
        return 'Incredibly simple plugin to return full url of all segments.';
    }


}

/* End of file pi.plugin_name.php */ 
/* Location: ./system/expressionengine/third_party/get_url/pi.get_url.php */

good idea. unfortunately, when i upload the plugin, i get an error when i attempt to access my plugin manager: “No direct script access allowed”

imjared, I’m working on the latest build of 2.0.2, would you happen to be on 1.6.9?

the folder goes here
/system/expressionengine/third_party/get_url/

I’ll update the attached file so that it comes in zipped in the get_url folder

that would do it, yes i am.

Ya I’m using some CI shortcuts to grab pieces of the url (codeigniter makes it so easy)

there has to be a pretty straightforward way to do it in 1.6.9 too, will have to look at that another time

I don’t know if this works in EE2, but in 1.6 I’ve always used

{path='{segment_1}/{segment_2}/{segment_3}/{segment_4}/{segment_5}/{segment_6}'}

It looks a bit weird, but it works! EE itself checks to see if a segment has been set and generates a url from it.

{current_url} seems to work for me in EE 2.9.0