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I am using Joomla 3.3 and K2 v2.6.9.

I have a category view with several items, namely books. The URL looks like this:

http://localhost/index.php?option=com_k2&view=itemlist&task=category&id=214:publikationen&Itemid=203

To present these items in a CSV-style list, I need to use another template, called csv-view. So I create the link to this view by this code::

<?php echo $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; ?>&amp;template=csv-view

resulting in this URL:

http://localhost/index.php?option=com_k2&view=itemlist&task=category&id=214:publikationen&Itemid=203&template=csv-view

This works.

But when I activate SEF URL the URL changes to

http://localhost/navigation/forschung/itemlist/category/214-publikationen.html

and the extended URL would be

http://localhost/navigation/forschung/itemlist/category/214-publikationen.html&template=csv-view

and this page can't be found.

So here is my question: how can I construct the correct URL for the CSV view even if SEF URLs are activated?

1 Answer 1

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  1. Instead of $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], you can rely on JUri::root()

  2. template parameter can not be added concatenating it with &. It has to be ? ... but it depends on the Url query. Thus, you need a piece of code like this to define the glue:

    $uri = JUri::getInstance($url);
    $query = $uri->getQuery();
    
    if (empty($query))
    {
        $glue = '?';
    }
    else
    {
        $glue = '&';
    }
    

As suggested by @fruppel in a more compact way:

    $uri = JUri::getInstance($url); 
    $uri->setVar('tmpl', 'csv-view'); 
    $url = $uri->toString();
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  • You could use setVar which will automatically add a '?' or '&': $uri->setVar('tmpl', 'csv-view');
    – fruppel
    Jan 28, 2015 at 18:12

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