Is it possible to search for section uri's in twig?

[arentsen]

In a template, I want to search if there is a section with a part of the slug as its uri, and then get the uri of the other, inactive language, so the sections can be

the site-switcher plugin translates categories and entries, but not sections?!

{% set element = (category ?? entry ?? null) %}

<ul>
    <li><a href="{{ siteSwitcher('english', element) }}">English</a></li>
    <li><a href="{{ siteSwitcher('spanish', element) }}">Español</a></li>
    <li><a href="{{ siteSwitcher('french', element) }}">Français</a></li>
    <li><a href="{{ siteSwitcher('german', element) }}">Deutsch</a></li>
</ul>

I have a beast of a macro now that may just be overkill, and it has some sections hard coded in there, but it would be much better to be able to look up the sections other language uri's. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I am getting told that I can't look up sections by it's URI and that I should loop over all the sections, for example:

{% set currentUri = 'projects' %} {# the URI you have #}

{% set matchedSection = null %}

{% for section in craft.app.sections.getAllSections() %}
    {% for siteSettings in section.getSiteSettings() %}
        {% if siteSettings.hasUrls %}
            {% set pattern = siteSettings.uriFormat|replace({'{slug}': ''})|trim('/') %}
            {% if pattern == currentUri %}
                {% set matchedSection = section %}
            {% endif %}
        {% endif %}
    {% endfor %}
{% endfor %}

and then look up the URI of that section in the other languages

{% if matchedSection %}
    {% for site in craft.app.sites.getAllSites() %}
        {% set siteSettings = matchedSection.getSiteSettings()[site.id] %}
        {% if siteSettings.hasUrls %}
            {% set sectionUriOtherLang = siteSettings.uriFormat|replace({'{slug}':''})|trim('/') %}
            {{ site.name }}: /{{ sectionUriOtherLang }}
        {% endif %}
    {% endfor %}
{% endif %}

Am I missing something? Is siteswitcher not taking care of this? The issue seems to be when I use a single section, for example /projects and then use a routing for /projects/{slug} to the same template to filter out certain categories

I am using Craft 5.

[brandonkelly]

You can loop through an entry’s other sites via element.getLocalized():

<ul>
  <li><a href="{{ element.url }}">{{ element.site.name }}</a></li>
  {% for localized in element.getLocalized() %}
    <li><a href="{{ localized.url }}">{{ localized.site.name }}</a></li>
  {% endfor %}
</ul>

Does that help?

If not, I’m not totally following what you’re trying to do. I guess maybe by “siteswitcher” you’re referring to this plugin, but that is a third party plugin that I’m not familiar with.

[arentsen]

Thanks for the tip, that's good to know, it will come in handy. I found out the site switcher plugin (it is the one you mentioned) actually does a better job than I realized. Over time, I had been building so many lines of code around it, that all it took, was go back to the naked plugin with a fix for a few exceptions.

[brandonkelly]

OK, well if the question is specifically about the plugin, you’ll need to talk to the developer about it on the plugin’s repo.