Url Helpers

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{{encodeURI}}

Encodes a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) component by replacing each instance of certain characters by one, two, three, or four escape sequences representing the UTF-8 encoding of the character.

Params

  • str {String}: The un-encoded string
  • returns {String}: The encoded string

Example

{{encodeURI "http://example.com?comment=Thyme &time=again"}}

{{escape}}

Escape the given string by replacing characters with escape sequences. Useful for allowing the string to be used in a URL, etc.

Params

  • str {String}
  • returns {String}: Escaped string.

Example

{{escape "http://example.com?comment=Thyme &time=again"}}

{{decodeURI}}

Decode a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) component.

Params

  • str {String}
  • returns {String}

Example

{{decodeURI "http%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%3Fcomment%3DThyme%20%26time%3Dagain"}}

{{url_encode}}

Alias for encodeURI.

{{url_decode}}

Alias for decodeURI.

{{urlResolve}}

Take a base URL, and a href URL, and resolve them as a browser would for an anchor tag.

Params

  • base {String}
  • href {String}
  • returns {String}

Example

{{urlResolve "/one/two/three" "four"}}
    
    
    {{urlResolve "http://example.com/" "/one"}}

{{urlParse}}

Parses a url string into an object.

Params

  • str {String}: URL string
  • returns {Object}: Returns parsed URL object

Example

{{urlParse "http://foo.com/bar/baz?key=value"}}

{{stripQuerystring}}

Strip the query string from the given url.

Params

  • url {String}
  • returns {String}: the url without the queryString

Example

{{stripQuerystring "http://example.com?tests=true"}}

{{stripProtocol}}

Strip protocol from a url. Useful for displaying media that may have an 'http' protocol on secure connections.

Params

  • str {String}
  • returns {String}: the url with http protocol stripped

Example

{{stripProtocol "http://foo.bar"}}