Getting Post Permalink Outside of Loop Not Working

Question

I'm trying to get post's permalinks outside of the loop via a wordress plugin. Nothing seems to be working. Here is the original code that does not link to any permalink.

public function get_comments_count($single){
        if (isset($this->params['comments']) && $this->params['comments'] == 'yes'){
            return '<div id="disquscomments"><a href="'.$permalink.'#disqus_thread">Comments</a></div>';
        } else {
        return null;
        }
    }

To get the comments linking to the permalink, I tried adding echo get_permalink within the href link, like so..

public function get_comments_count($single){
        if (isset($this->params['comments']) && $this->params['comments'] == 'yes'){
            return '<div id="disquscomments"><a href="<?php echo get_permalink($post->ID); ?>#disqus_thread">Comments</a></div>';
        } else {
        return null;
        }
    }

This just returned the link as mysite.com/< ? php echo get_permal... So, I then tried setting a function for permalink and putting it in the href link.. I did this like so...

    public function get_comments_count($single){
                $permalink = get_permalink($post->ID);
        if (isset($this->params['comments']) && $this->params['comments'] == 'yes'){
            return '<div id="disquscomments"><a href="'.$permalink.'#disqus_thread">Comments</a></div>';
        } else {
        return null;
        }
    }

Unfortunately, this did not work. It just returned the link as mysite.com/#disqus_thread without the actual permalink.

I have no idea why this isn't working. :( Any help would truely be appreciated, and if you would like me to paste the full plugin code via pastebin, I gladfully will! Please help a bro out!! :)

Answer 1

According to: http://wpseek.com/get_comment_count/ $single is the post ID.

Try:

public function get_comment_count($single){
    if (isset($this->params['comments']) && $this->params['comments'] == 'yes'){
        return '<div id="disquscomments"><a href="'.get_permalink($single).'#disqus_thread">Comments</a></div>';
    } else {
    return null;
    }
}

Answer 2

Inside your function, you are outside of scope from your loop. You should call the function with the ID of the post, so add a 2nd parameter:

public function get_comments_count($single, $postid){
     $permalink = get_permalink($postid);
    if (isset($this->params['comments']) && $this->params['comments'] == 'yes'){
        return '<div id="disquscomments"><a     href="'.$permalink.'#disqus_thread">Comments</a></div>';
    } else {
    return null;
    }
}