Passing user defined variable into get_permalink

Question

I'm trying to use a predefined variable (generated from an earlier sweep of the database) in wordpress' standard get_permalink( get_page_by_title) function.

I'm assuming that this is possible? But I can't get it working, it always returns the url of the current page.

For the sake of clarity below I'm just manually assigning the variable.

Code...

<?php $mypagename = "My First Page"; ?>
<a href="<?php echo esc_url( get_permalink( get_page_by_title( $mypagename ) ) ); ?>">LINK</a>

N.B - My First Page (my-first-page) does exist in the database

Any ideas where I'm going wrong or if it's not possible to do it like this do you have any other suggestions?

Many thanks!

Answer 1

get_page_by_title() returns a object by default and get_permalink() needs the ID as first parameter. Try:

$mypagename = "My First Page";

$permalink = get_permalink( get_page_by_title( $mypagename )->ID );