Question

I want to pull a url segment variable into the pyrocms file plugin call. it would look like

{{files:listing folder=”[segment(2)]”}}

or something of the sort. What is the trick for embedding

{{url:segments..}} 

inside

{{files:listing folder="…}}

I am trying to setup this up for a conditional query for a photo gallery

Answer 1

If you take a look at the PyroCMS Tags documentation you will see this clearly documented in the "Tag Attributes" section.

You may also use the output from other tags as attribute values in your tags. For example if you wanted the url segment to default to the slug of the currently viewed page you could do this:

{{ url:segments segment="1" default=page:slug }}

Here is an example showing the proper use of quotes and braces when the tag used as the attribute value has an attribute itself.

{{ url:segments segment="1" default={foo:bar value="baz"} }}

Tip: Omit quotes and braces when using tags as attribute values. The only exception is when the tag you are using as the attribute value has its own attributes.

So you can do that easily with:

{{ files:listing folder={url:segments segment="2"} }}

Basically you don’t need to pretend it’s a string if it’s not. You can just send the foo:bar arguments through, but it if has attributes you can "group" the attributes with the call via a single { and }.

Simple right? 🙂