Retrieving page URLs in a multilingual website - Sitefinity - Front- & Back-End Development

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Posted by Community Admin on 28-Nov-2012 00:00

Hi,

I'm trying to understand how to retrieve full (absolute, not relative, not starting with ~/) page URLs in a multilingual website. Sitefinity knows about them. All I want is get the URL Sitefinity is using for a page.

In case I have the page id (Me.LinkPageGUID in the code below), this is what I've come up with:

Dim LinkPage As PageNode = App.WorkWith.Pages.LocatedIn(Fluent.Pages.PageLocation.Frontend).Where(Function(p) p.Id = Me.LinkPageGUID).Get.FirstOrDefault()

Dim FullDomain As String = Page.Request.Url.Scheme & System.Uri.SchemeDelimiter & Page.Request.Url.Host & (If(Page.Request.Url.IsDefaultPort, "", ":" & Page.Request.Url.Port))

Dim PageUrl As String = Page.ResolveUrl(LinkPage.GetFullUrl(Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture, True))

Me.Link1.NavigateUrl = FullDomain & PageUrl

1) It works fine, but it seems a bit overcomplicated. Is there a cleaner way to achieve the same thing?

2) I haven't figured this one out: From within a forum widget, in case I have the GUID of a forum, how do I get the URL of the page that has been configured to display the forum threads? I can get to the Forum object, but all it exposes is a DefaultPageId property. I'm not sure what to do with that, or if I need it at all. It seems to be the Id of the current page, which is not what I need.

Thanks,
Arno

Posted by Community Admin on 29-Nov-2012 00:00

Hi Arno,

You could use this method to get a PageNode back:

/// <summary>

/// Get a page url

/// </summary>

/// <param name="id"></param>

/// <returns></returns>

public static string GetPageUrl(Guid id)

var result = string.Empty;

var currentLanguage = Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture;

var s = ObjectFactory.Resolve<UrlLocalizationService>();

var pm = PageManager.GetManager();

try

if (s != null)

var pageNode = pm.GetPageNode(id);

if (pageNode != null) result = s.ResolvePageUrl(pageNode, currentLanguage);

catch (ItemNotFoundException)

return result;

catch (NullReferenceException)

return result;

Then use the VirtualPathProvider to get an absolute URL, like this:

var url = GetPageUrl(pageId);

if (url == null) return;

var absoluteUrl = VirtualPathUtility.ToAbsolute(url);

Hope that works for you?

Regards,
Daniel

Posted by Community Admin on 29-Nov-2012 00:00

Sorry, I see you are using VB.NET.
Then it would be like this:

''' <summary>

''' Get a page url

''' </summary>

''' <param name="id"></param>

''' <returns></returns>

Public Shared Function GetPageUrl(id As Guid) As String

Dim result = String.Empty

Dim currentLanguage = Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture

Dim s = ObjectFactory.Resolve(Of UrlLocalizationService)()

Dim pm = PageManager.GetManager()

Try

If s IsNot Nothing Then

Dim pageNode = pm.GetPageNode(id)

If pageNode IsNot Nothing Then

result = s.ResolvePageUrl(pageNode, currentLanguage)

End If

Catch generatedExceptionName As ItemNotFoundException

Return result

Catch generatedExceptionName As NullReferenceException

Return result

End Try

Return result

End Function

and this:

Dim url = GetPageUrl(pageId)

If url Is Nothing Then

Return

End If

Dim absoluteUrl = VirtualPathUtility.ToAbsolute(url)

Regards,
Daniel

Posted by Community Admin on 29-Nov-2012 00:00

Thanks a lot Daniel! That makes more sense to me than my LINQ attempt. And I decided to store the domain as an app setting in web.config and get it from there if I need it.

Now, I hope someone knows how to get the forum page. Still haven't figured out that one.

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