Pass/Get URL Parameter Before URL Rewrite

  • thelos999

    (@thelos999)


    7 years, 6 months ago

    I don’t exactly know how to word this question, as well as the title. I’m working on a musicians website. I am displaying the discography in a grid, and when someone clicks on the album artwork, they are sent to a page with more information (album name, track listing, release date, etc…). So what I want to do is, for example, I would like to rewrite http://www.bandname.com/album.php?album=album-name&allbumID=12345 and have it rewritten to http://www.bandname.com/album/album-name but still be able to grab the albumID parameter. Now, since I am using iTunes’ Search API, I would like to somehow also pass the albums ID so I can then get the track information for just that album.

    Currently my rewrite is: '^album/([^/]*)/?', 'index.php?pagename=album&album=$matches[1]'

    I tried adding &albumID=$matches[2], but I can’t seem to figure out how to pass the albumID.

    Is this even possible? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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  • Joy

    (@joyously)

    7 years, 6 months ago

    If you define a custom post type, the rewrites are handled for you. The album ID could be stored in post meta instead of in the URL.
    And any time you want to use a variable in the URL, you need to define it to WordPress, or it gets stripped out.

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