OctoberCMS : Prepare a URL for front end

Question

I have a component and I would like to prepare some URL.

The component display a list of categories, with a anchor tag for the category page. The category page can be selected in the component properties. After, the URL option is the slug.

For example, the category fruits : http://mywebsite.com/category/fruits.

I could do the following : <a href="http://mywebsite.com/fruits/{{ category.slug }}">{{ category.name }}</a> but this is not good, especially when I go to production.

For the page, I can use the |page filter with {{ properties.categoryPage }}, but I have to specifies the URL options, slug.

I think the best way would be to build a URL maker in the component PHP, but how?

Thanks.

Answer 1

The following code works :

{{ properties.productPage|page({slug: category.slug }) }}