Question

I am looking for a quick and dirty way to query the layouts files of a particular page by its friendly url. This is probably easy, but I can’t find the solution.

Basically I want to say something like the following. Pseudo-code:

var mainpage = Sitecore.EasyQueryUtility.GetItemByFriendlyUrl(requestedUrl);

or

var mainpage = Sitecore.EasyQueryUtility.GetOppositeOfFriendlyUrl(friendlyurl);

Answer 1

It sounds like you want to do two things here:

1. Determine an item based on its rendered URL in the address bar (i.e. friendly URL)
2. Determine the layout being used by the item once you determine the item.

If those are correct, hopefully this can help you out:

Note: untested code I did on-the-fly

// if you have the full URL with protocol and host
public static Item GetItemFromUrl(string url)
{
    string path = new Uri(url).PathAndQuery;    
    return GetItemFromPath(path);
}

// if you have just the path after the hostname
public static Item GetItemFromPath(string path)
{
    // remove query string
    if(path.Contains("?"))
        path = path.split('?')[0];

    path = path.Replace(".aspx", "");

    return Sitecore.Context.Database.GetItem(path);
}

Once you have the item you can get the layout’s name like so:

item.Visualization.GetLayout(Sitecore.Context.Device).Name;

Or the layout’s physical file path to the ASPX:

item.Visualization.GetLayout(Sitecore.Context.Device).FilePath;