rewrite

The rewrite attribute can be used on a template tag that outputs a URL with a querystring. A good example is the next_url and prev_url links output by pagination.

<perch:content id="next_url" rewrite="/archive/{page:page/%s/}">

The rewrite attribute is a literal string, apart of sections in {braces}. These sections are matched against the arguments on the querystring. The format is as follows:

{querystring parameter to match:replacement}

The replacement can contain a %s to represent the value of the item.

So to match page=2 and rewrite it to, for example, p2, we’d need the following replacement:

{page:p%s}

To take an example from the Blog app, the pagination tags might output a URL like this:

/blog/archive.php?cat=cooking&page=2

Let’s say we wanted to rewrite that link to the following format:

/blog/archive/category:cooking/page:2/

The rewrite attribute would need to look like this:

rewrite="/blog/archive/{cat:category:%s/}{page:page:%s/}"

To account for a possible tag and year parameter, we would just add those in.

rewrite="/blog/archive/{cat:category:%s/}{tag:tag:%s/}{year:year:%s/}{page:page:%s/}"