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I have the following code using the {site_url} variable, like so:

<div class="g-plusone" data-annotation="inline" data-width="300" data-href="{site_url}">

However, when I changed the variable to {current_url}, it doesn't work.

<div class="g-plusone" data-annotation="inline" data-width="300" data-href="{current_url}">

Any idea why one standard global variable would work and not the other?

Thanks!

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  • What version of EE are you using? I think current_url is a fairly new global variable. I think it was introduced in 2.5.5
    – foamcow
    May 22, 2013 at 22:43
  • Turns out we're using 2.5.2. Should have caught that when reading the documentation. :/
    – Yazmin
    May 24, 2013 at 0:55

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{current_url} was only included in EE 2.5.4 so if it's older than this then that will be why it doesn't work. An alternative approach would be to either use {site_url} followed by segment variables (not too clean) or use one of the many plugins which address this shortfall prior to 2.5.4.

Personally I quite like URL Helper as it has many useful utilities wrapped up into one handy package. It fills a lot of small holes in EE's URL handling.

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  • Thanks Ian. We're using 2.5.2 which explains the problem. I'll use segments for now until they upgrade.
    – Yazmin
    May 24, 2013 at 0:56

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