How to get tree URL?

[jchue]

Forgive me if this is the wrong place to ask. I'm still familiarizing myself with the codebase- is there a straightforward way to obtain the URL for a tree's homepage? I tried using the route() function in Helpers/functions.php, but it's just giving me the base URL + /index.php?route=/tree/tree/{tree} (with the curly braces instead of the actual tree name).

[fisharebest]

You need to provide all the route parameters as a second argument.

route($route_name, [$param1 => $value1, $param2 => $value2, ...]

Any extra parameters that are not place-holders will be added to the URL as a query parameter.

e.g.

route('tree-page', ['tree' => $tree->name()]);

Note that there are two styles of route name.

• a string such as 'tree-page' which links to the name of a controller class and method

• the name of a request-handler class such as IndividualPage::class, which is handled by that class.

The former are gradually being replaced by the latter.

You can see them all in app/Http/Routes/WebRoutes.php.

[fisharebest]

Just to clarify my last point, the current code:

route('tree-page', ['tree' => $tree->name()]);

will shortly be changing to something like

route(TreePage::class, ['tree' => $tree->name()]);

[jchue]

Thank you! Does this mean that, in your example after the code has changed, I would need to import the TreePage request handler (in addition to the route helper) to be able to do this in a theme module?

[fisharebest]

I would need to import the TreePage request handler

You'd need to have a line like this at the top of your script

use Fisharebest\Webtrees\Http\RequestHandlers\TreePage;

[fisharebest]

BTW - that particular change will be happening later today...

[jchue]

Got it. Thanks!