Re: $path not working

$path is a relative pointer to your categories. This behaviour is  
strictly kept as close as possible to the original blosxom.  
$absolute_path will always start from the root, and $path starts  
relative to where your page is at...

Imagine a blog with /foo/bar/baz with an article /foo/bar/baz/ 
hello_world.txt, you are at /foo/:

$absolute_path = /foo/bar/baz
$path = bar/baz

If you used a date based path, it does not make sense to start path  
at any where else than /foo/bar/baz ($path is category based)..

$path does not work for Martin because he use "$url$path", it may be  
in the default templates.

There is a pitfall however. $path is not calculated properly. One  
must use $path with a trailing / (for linking), and must usually  
prepend a ./, if you enter a category without a trailing / at your url.

If there's a variable in serious need of unit testing, I think $path  
would be the one :)

Anyway, the reference design for $path was blosxom 0+5i, which is a  
very old version, no one complained about the $path implementation  
then. I, being a rebel, introduced $absolute_path. :)

On 12 May 2006, at 10:13 PM, will guaraldi wrote:

>
> Hrm.  That sounds like a bug to me, too.
>
> The weird thing is that $absolute_path works fine.  I use  
> $absolute_path on my blog and get the full category regardless of  
> what entries or categories I'm looking at.
>
> I'm not sure why we have a $path and an $absolute_path and what the  
> differences might/should be.  I'll find some time to look into it  
> and figure out what the deal is.
>
> /will
>
>
> On Fri, 12 May 2006, martin f krafft wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I migrated my site to 1.3.2 and found that $path, which I use as
>> category, is not working in certain cases, specifically when I visit
>> a post or a category directly.
>>
>> It works when I just go to the main page: http://blog.madduck.net/,
>> e.g.:
>>
>>   Wed, 10 May 2006 14:30 | debian | Permalink
>>                            ^^^^^^
>>
>> But click on the debian category, and the byline of the posts will
>> become:
>>
>>   Wed, 10 May 2006 14:30 |  | Permalink
>>
>> which is the same as if surfed there by permalink.
>>
>> If I use a date link (http://blog.madduck.net/2006/05/10), the
>> category is back, but it now has a leading slash.
>>
>> I get the same behaviour if I use further subdirectories
>> (http://blog.madduck.net/travel/2006-southeastasia).
>>
>> What gives? Is it just me or does this smell like a bug?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> (Please CC me on replies)
>
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