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Dynamic linking with php

  • October 29, 2019
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Hello Everyone!


I am creating a custom wordpress site. I have an articles page that is looping through all of my articles using airtable as an api and cURL. When I click on the link for one of the articles, I would like it to bring me to that article’s specific page (dynamic template page).


How can i create a link that will grab the information for that specific airtable record?


Issue is that i would normally have to do record[‘0’][‘fields’][‘Name’]


however, since my page is dynamic, i cannot put the specific array [‘0’].

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JonathanBowen

Hi @David_Delvin - not sure I totally understand your question, but on your articles page, I’m assuming you’re making a call to the articles table endpoint and getting back something like this:


{

    "records": [

        {

            "id": "recabc123",

            "fields": {

                "ID": 4,

                ...

            },

            "createdTime": "2019-10-25T14:35:05.000Z"

        },

        {

            "id": "recabc125",

            "fields": {

                "ID": 5,

                ...

            },

            "createdTime": "2019-10-25T14:47:27.000Z"

        },

        {

            "id": "recabc126",

            "fields": {

                "ID": 6,

                ...

            },

            "createdTime": "2019-10-25T14:56:18.000Z"

        }

    ],

    "offset": "recabc126"

}

Using this you can loop through the articles and display whatever summary information you need. You can also include a link to a single article page for each record using the “id” key, e.g.


www.mysite.com/article/recabc123


or:


www.mysite.com/article?id=recabc123


On this page, you can retrieve a single record via the API using the record GET request, e.g.:


https://api.airtable.com/v0/YOUR_APP_ID/YOUR_TABLE_NAME/recabc123


Does that work for you?


JB

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