Magento – Echo the URL of a CMS Page in PHP

Clay Simmons — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 18:40:55 +0000

Just a quickie post that I hope helps a few people. I wasn’t able to find anything quickly.

So, in my template header.phtml file, I am setting up the navigation manually b/c the client wants all this fancy multi-column drop down nav stuff. I obviously don’t want hard-coded URLs in the nav b/c the {{base_url}} of the site will change when the site goes live. Plus, we might change URLs for SEO purposes down the line.

WordPress gives us the ability to do this with a simple:

get_permalink($page_or_post_id)

To do the same from your Magento template file, do this:

Mage::Helper('cms/page')->getPageUrl($page_id)

TextMate FTP SSH Bundle Snow Leopard FIX

Clay Simmons — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 03:01:35 +0000

I use the FTP/SSH bundle for TextMate a lot and have gotten quite used to it. It is quirky, but it has become an invaluable part of my development process. When I upgraded to Snow Leopard, the bundle stopped working.

There are two fixes you need to apply.

The first fix

The first fixes problems if you’re getting errors like:

PHP Notice: Undefined index TM_PROJECT_FILEPATH
PHP Notice: Undefined index TM_DIRECTORY

You need to alter your /private/etc/php.ini file. If you don’t have one, just copy the /private/etc/php.ini.default file to /private/etc/php.ini. Look for this line:

variables_order = “GPCS”

Change it to:

variables_order = “GPCSE”

The second fix

Snow Leopard ships with PHP 5.3, which, in its default configuration, doesn’t recognize the $_ENV superglobal. You have to call getenv() instead. Since the FTP/SSH bundle relies heavily on the $_ENV variable, it breaks under Snow Leopard. Luckily, there’s an easy fix.

The Solution

Open up TextMate and open the following folder:

/Users/your_username/Library/Application Support/TextMate/Pristine Copy/Bundles/FTP:SSH.tmbundle/

Use shift+cmd+f to do a global find/replace. For find, enter this:

\$_ENV\['([A-Z_]+)'\]

For replace, enter this:

getenv('$1')

Make sure you check the “Regular expression” box and click Find and then Replace All.

That’s it. The bundle should start working properly.

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Magento – Echo the URL of a CMS Page in PHP

TextMate FTP SSH Bundle Snow Leopard FIX

The first fix

The second fix

The Solution