Using same template for single and multiple entries

Posted: 01 June 2007 10:06 AM

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Is it possible to render the same page differently depending on whether the entry was accessed directly or if it is a summary listing?

I have a weblog set up where the user enters the title, the body, and a summary. I want to make it so that when the user goes to /myblog/ or /myblog/index, they receive a listing of the titles of the posts with the summary. Clicking on the title will send them to /myblog/urltitle and will render the post appropriately.

The problem that I am having is that I would like some of the other content on the page to be different depending on whether it is a page for a single post the page for the listing of all posts. What’s the easiest way to determine if the page is rendering a single entry or multiple entries? I can’t simply use {if total_results == 1} because there could be only one item in the listing when i paginate the results.

I’m sure this is a common way of using templates and would appreciate it if someone could shed some light on the subject.

Thanks

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darylh

Posted: 01 June 2007 11:37 AM

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Here’s the solution I came up with. I’m using two separate {exp:weblog} listings. The first checks to see if the url_title is the same as the appropriate url segment. If it is, the single element will be rendered. Otherwise, the entries will be listed in a summary format.

<html><body>

{assign_variable:my_weblog="polls"}
{assign_variable:my_template_group="polls"}

<pre> Segment vars
Seg1: {segment_1}
Seg2: {segment_2}
Seg3: {segment_3}
Seg4: {segment_4}
</pre>

<!-- Checking segment_2 and segment_3 because currently, /index/ is optional so the url title could be /polls/index/url_title or /polls/title/ -->
{exp:weblog:entries weblog="{my_weblog}" orderby="date" sort="desc" dynamic="on" limit="1"}
   {if (url_title) && ((segment_3 == url_title) || (segment_2 == url_title)) }
      this is a direct entry
      <h1>Page Header</h1>
   {/if}
{/exp:weblog:entries}    


{exp:weblog:entries weblog="{my_weblog}" orderby="date" sort="desc" limit="5" }
   {if (url_title) && ((segment_3 == url_title) || (segment_2 == url_title)) }
      <!-- EE needs a NOT operator -->

   {if:else}
      {if count == 1}
         this is a listing
         <h1>Page Header</h1>
      {/if}
      {url_title}<br/>
   {/if}
{/exp:weblog:entries}    

</body></html> 

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e-man

Posted: 08 June 2007 07:19 AM

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Pretty cool you posted your own solution (and only 1 hour later )

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