liferay-velocity

How do i access GET variables as passed in the URI in a VM template? This works only when loading the widget URL: $request.get("parameters").get("fav").get(0) I'm looking for a neat solution that works with friendly URLs. Here's my testing template: <br><br><br> #set($url = $request.attributes.CURRENT_URL) <h2>url: $url</h2> #set($favs = $url.split("fav=")) favs: $favs<br> favs.size(): $favs.size() <br> #if($favs.size() > 1) #set($fav1 = $favs.get(1).split("&").get(0)) fav1: $fav1<br> #else No fav! #end #if($favs.size() > 2) #set($fav2 = $favs.get(2).split("&").get(0)) fav2: $fav2<br> #end

I am writing velocity templates for my liferay theme and I am wondering, whether it is possible to create a new object inside the velocity template. The reason is that in liferay there is no contextTool registered in the context and I really want to be able to inspect the variables that are present in the template at a given time. There is a cool macro for this, but unfortunately it uses the contexttool. I'd like to do something like: #set($contextTool = new ContextTool()) Another solution would be java code that is provided with the liferay theme that is able to add stuff in the template

I'm new to liferay and I'm almost positive this is blazingly simple to do: Using velocity markup, I want to be able to generate links to pages within my Liferay website and embed them inside of my portlets on different pages. I have a vague idea of how it might be done so I searched around figuring it would be posted somewhere, but I can't find anything on it. Incidentally, I want to put whatever code I come up with inside the view.jsp of the portlet. I would use velocity markup here but I don't think (don't know for sure) if that is allowed inside of a jsp. Please let me know if you need more