the_permalink() broken outside the loop

[Skeltoac]

The output of the_permalink() on a Page with a loopless template (such as my links page ​http://www.skeltoac.com/links/) will be something like "​http://www.skeltoac.com/2004/04/21//". It should either output the correct URI or nothing at all.

[Skeltoac]

A simpler version, not so forgiving or assuming:

if ($post) $idpost = $post;
else return false;

[MC_incubus]

You really should be using a loop if you want to use functions like the_permalink(), even if there is only one post.

Alternatively, you can directly pass the ID to the get_permalink() function.

[Skeltoac]

It didn't occur to me that I would need a loop in a Page that had no 'post' content. I ran across this bad URI output while writing a plugin; I'm sure others use Page templates without loops, too, so I have to put a workaround in my plugin code. It would just be nice if the_permalink() was more reliable, i.e. didn't spit out invalid URIs.

[Denis de Bernardy]

it would also be nice if you could feed it a post, rather than/in addition to an ID

the_permalink() would use $post (global variable)

the_permalink( $ID ) would look in cache, and query the DB if necessary

the_permalink( $post ) would just use whichever info is in $post

[mdawaffe]

I just tried this on the default theme's archives page template. It worked.