Permalink Derived Query String?

Hey Perch

There is a way to do this, but it depends on you creating a permalink specifically for each page, which may not be feasible. I had to do something similar to this last week for another site and this is what I went with:

Create a new section called Pages, and add the permalink fields to each. Then for each page, create an appropriate permalink, like say http://www.example.com/page3 for the third record, http://www.example.com/page4 for the fourth, etc. Go to the Section Editor, and set the detail page for this section to be the index.php or whatever viewer uses the page=3 thing.

In the Code Generator, create a detail page for this section and tick this option: Get record # from end of url. eg: viewer.php?record_title-3

So now the generated code will look something like this:

list($exampleRecords, $exampleMetaData) = getRecords(array(
'tableName' => 'example_table',
'where' => whereRecordNumberInUrl(0),
'loadUploads' => true,
'allowSearch' => false,
'limit' => '1',
));
$exampleRecord = @$exampleRecords[0]; // get first record

Include this in your viewer before the code that does something with $_REQUEST['page'].

Basically what happens now is that this permalink - http://www.example.com/page3 - goes to your viewer and automagically delivers the Pages record as $exampleRecord. You can then use the $exampleRecord['num'] value anywhere you'd use $_REQUEST['page'].

You don't even need to use getRecords here but I'm including it for simplicity.

This will only work if you have a set number of pages, though. Hope it helps.