Routing

Among its other special powers, Timber includes modern routing in the Express.js/Ruby on Rails mold, making it easy for you to implement custom pagination--and anything else you might imagine in your wildest dreams of URLs and parameters. OMG so easy!

Some examples #

In your functions.php file, this can be called anywhere (don't hook it to init or another action or it might be called too late)

<?php
Routes::map('blog/:name', function($params){
    $query = 'posts_per_page=3&post_type='.$params['name'];
    Routes::load('archive.php', null, $query, 200);
});

Routes::map('blog/:name/page/:pg', function($params){
    $query = 'posts_per_page=3&post_type='.$params['name'].'&paged='.$params['pg'];
    $params = array('thing' => 'foo', 'bar' => 'I dont even know');
    Routes::load('archive.php', $params, $query);
});

map #

Routes::map($pattern, $callback)

Usage #

A functions.php where I want to display custom paginated content:

<?php
Routes::map('info/:name/page/:pg', function($params){
	//make a custom query based on incoming path and run it...
	$query = 'posts_per_page=3&post_type='.$params['name'].'&paged='.intval($params['pg']);

	//load up a template which will use that query
	Routes::load('archive.php', null, $query);
});

Arguments #

$pattern (required) Set a pattern for Timber to match on, by default everything is handled as a string. Any segment that begins with a : is handled as a variable, for example:

To paginate:

page/:pagenum

To edit a user:

my-users/:userid/edit

$callback A function that should fire when the pattern matches the request. Callback takes one argument which is an array of the parameters passed in the URL.

So in this example: 'info/:name/page/:pg', $params would have data for:

• $data['name']
• $data['pg']

... which you can use in the callback function as a part of your query

load #

Routes::load($php_file, $args, $query = null, $status_code = 200)

Arguments #

$php_file (required) A PHP file to load, in my experience this is usually your archive.php or a generic listing page (but don't worry it can be anything!)

$template_params Any data you want to send to the resulting view. Example:

<?php
/* functions.php */

Routes::map('info/:name/page/:pg', function($params){
    //make a custom query based on incoming path and run it...
    $query = 'posts_per_page=3&post_type='.$params['name'].'&paged='.intval($params['pg']);

    //load up a template which will use that query
    $params = array();
    $params['my_title'] = 'This is my custom title';
    Routes::load('archive.php', $params, $query, 200);
});

<?php
/* archive.php */

global $params;
$context['wp_title'] = $params['my_title']; // "This is my custom title"
/* the rest as normal... */
Timber::render('archive.twig', $context)

$query The query you want to use, it can accept a string or array just like Timber::get_posts -- use the standard WP_Query syntax (or a WP_Query object too)

$status_code Send an optional status code. Defaults to 200 for 'Success/OK'