Extracting parts of the URL

@emmanuel

Following on from this thread …

We have hacked a way to allow “pretty” dynamic page names tied to data not bubble pages.

However it only works with pages that have a content type. And we are kinda dependent on Bubble keeping the rightmost part of the URL in the Content Id.

So here … “blah” will appear in the Unique Id if we set the page to have content. So we can display data based upon it.

https://buildingonbubble.com/version-test/index/blah

However, the page still works if it doesn’t take a content type - but I can’t see a way to access this.

What would be quite nice is to be able to extract this “blah” on a page. Maybe from the URL using :extract ?

That way it would be a bit more “offical” than the current hack.

Essentially you giving up control to the user to control their types on a page. I know it is lot like parameter, but it looks a lot nicer :slight_smile:

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Wow buildingonbubble is amazing! How comes I didn’t find out about this sooner? Thanks so much Nigel!

Also great idea although I don’t entirely understand it lol.

Thanks :smiley:

It is mid rebuild to make it a bit better looking and to replace ziggeo video with YouTube.

Hopefully the live site is more obvious …

Have quite a lot more blocks (features to add).

Sorry which part of the URL do you want to extract?

https://trest3.bubbleapps.io/version-test/slugtest/thisbit/wonder/what/this/does (only does this “thisbit”)

Not sure what you call it, but you are pulling it out into …

…when there is no Word defined on the page.

@NigelG Nigel,
FYI your link goes to the “version-test” of buildingonbubble.