Sherlock (BETA)

Lets you inspect the url.

Installation

• Copy the /system/expressionengine/third_party/sherlock/ folder to your /system/expressionengine/third_party/ folder

Usage

• Use to detect the type of page based on the url

    {exp:sherlock:page_type}
    	{if is_pagination} 
    		There are a lot of these.
    	{/if} 
    	{if is_pagination && is_category}
    		There are a lot of these to filter.
    	{/if} 
    	{if page_type == 'category'} 
    		Lets filter these entries a little.
    	{/if}
    {/exp:sherlock:page_type}
  

• Get a category_id based upon a url segment

    {exp:sherlock:category_id category_url_title="{segment_4}"}
    	{exp:weblog:entries weblog="news" category="{category_id}"}
    		<ul>
    			<li><a href="{url_title_path="news"}">{title}</a></li>
    		</ul>
    	{/exp:weblog:entries}
    {/exp:sherlock:category_id}
  

• Get query string variables out of the url

    {exp:sherlock:get}
    	<p>{get:name} - {get:gender}</p>
    {/exp:sherlock:get}
  

• You also have access to all the parts of the url

    {exp:sherlock:parts}
    	<p>{protocal}://{host}:{port}{uri}</p>
    	{if uri_part_1 == 'home'}
    		<p>Home at last!</p>
    	{/if}
    {/exp:sherlock:parts}
  

• And you can decode url encode strings

    {exp:sherlock:url_decode string="Cheese%20is%20awesome!"}
  

Issues

Please log any issues or problems here: https://github.com/themusicman/Sherlock/issues