[wp-hackers] get_page_link by page name/slug?

[Michael B]

Forgive me if I misunderstand, but is the_permalink exactly what you want?
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_permalink

<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>


~miklb



On 11/26/06, Lee Kelleher <leekelleher at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Does anyone know if there is a way in the existing WP core code to get the
> hyperlink to a page by it's slug/name?
>
> The reason for asking is that when I develop/maintain a WP theme, the
> post/page IDs are completely out-of-step with the production site, and
> using
> the get_page_link() function only allows for the ID (integer).  So it
> would
> be nice to use the page slug/name as this would work seamlessly across
> both
> dev and production environments.
>
> I have written some code to do this...
>
> function get_page_link_by_slug($page_slug) {
> >     global $wpdb;
> >     $page_id = 0;
> >     $results = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT ID FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE
> > post_status = 'static' AND post_name = '$page_slug'");
> >     if ($results) {
> >         foreach ($results as $result) {
> >             $page_id = $result->ID;
> >         }
> >     }
> >     return get_page_link($page_id);
>
> }
> > usage: echo get_page_link_by_slug('about');
> >
>
> I based the syntax on the get_linkobjectsbyname() function - which adds
> another hit on the database, but it saves duplicating the code that
> formats
> the hyperlink.
>
> Would this be useful in the core code? or does anyone know of a better way
> of achieving this?
>
> Cheers,
> - Lee
>
> --
> Lee Kelleher
> http://leekelleher.com/
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