What's the difference between url_title and url_title_path?

Question

I keep running into issues, and apparently I just don't understand the difference between these two variables. One set of pages works with url_title_path, and the other set will only act right with url_title. There must be some difference I'm missing, but I don't know what it is. any help?

Answer 1

url_title_path requires a template_group/tempate to be passed to it, so it can return a complete URL. It should be used when creating links. (It seems to be the same as title_permalink, which is what I always use myself.)

e.g., {url_title_path="news/entry"} returns http://mysite.com/news/entry/hello-world

url_title is simply a variable which returns an entry's url_title, e.g., hello_world