Hi there,

I’m having certain issues trying to get pagination to work on my template. I’m sure this is something simple, but I’m not a programmer and haven’t found anything related on the documentation.

I have a template which displays a list of weblog entries (games) and each title links to that particular weblog entry (the individual game) with other related content, all using the same template.

For example:

List of games
Game page

I use conditionals to either display one loop or another depending on if the segment_3 is empty or not.

Here is my code

On the games list, I’ve added the pagination links but when I click on a next page, I get a blank page. I’m sure it’s got something to do with the url segment conditional I’m using, but I have no idea of another way to achieve this

Any help is highly appreciated since I suck at programming. T_T

[Mod edit: moved to Technical Support forum]

Yep- the problem is your conditional:
{if segment_3 != “”}

When you have a page indicator in there?  You have a segment_3- in which case, it’s not blank.  And the weblog tag being used is:

{exp:weblog:entries weblog=“game” sort=“asc” track_views=“one” url_title=”{segment_3}” limit=“1”}
So on the second page: http://psnow.es/v3/index.php/global/juego/P25/
It tries to pull in an entry with the url title of P25- which doesn’t exist, so you get nothing in there.

Easiest option is to just use two different templates- one for multi-entry pages, one for the single entry ones.  But there are other options- I’ve used php a la:

Flipped out embeds based on what’s in a segment- a bit more complicated than what you need, but that’s the basic php approach.  Personally?  I’d just create two templates.  Unless you really have a good reason to funnel both types of page through a single template.

Anyhoo- make sense what’s up?

Yeah, made sense. Even thought I don’t understand the code you wrote, I do understand what it does. 

The reason why I’m using the same template is to keep a clean URL hierarchy. It’s much cleaner /game/game-title/ then /game/single/game_title. I’m a perfectionist. 

Anyway…

I was thinking of doing a conditional which displays the first loop when the query matches the Game weblog ID, but then again, the list of Games would have the same weblog ID too, so it would crash. 

I’m gonna try and implement the code you gave me, and if no luck, well I guess I’m gonna have to go the easy way and use separate templates.

Thanks for your help, and sorry for posting in the wrong place.

Any other ideas are welcome of course.

Heh- yea, that php was used on that site because we wanted the leaner url structure as well.  Should be simple to modify it for your needs- we had an extra custom ‘sort’ indicator Fx that could be in the url to alter the sort order.  But could strip it down:

That’s the gist- checks if it’s empty or if it’s a Px.  Turn php parsing on, parse on input- should work fine.  You don’t have to embed- can put it all on one template.  I just like to embed to keep it a little easier to follow the code.  Adds a wee bit of overhead, but saves me headaches when I have to go back and figure out how it all works.

Whoa…!!! It works perfectly! This is why I need a coder so badly. Simple stuff like this seems so complicated for me.    Although one day I’ll learn PHP, promise! haha

Many thanks for your time, I really appreciate it.

And yeah, I agree about embedding everything. It’s the best way to keep all the code nice and tidy, and avoids repeating stuff again and again. When I started with the design, I just done the whole page on one template, but now I’m separating every module (those boxes of content you see xD) into its own template, and then embedding them all over the site. Got lots of work to do still.

Once again, thanks for everything.

Glad Robin got you squared away there.