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hi,

i’ve spent more than a day on this little thing, i look like Einstein but without the brains and much fewer hair than when i started!!

so what i’m doing:
any blog post (weblog post) can be customized with template reference correct?
so when i use

{title_permalink="my_weblog_template/template"}

would produce a consistent url using that particular template. that’s all fine so far ...

MY PROBLEM
i want to customize this further so that the post permalink uses different template based on different categories

for example i have 3 categories for a given weblog, and i have multiple weblogs (channels)
i want to get: (automatically)
http://domain.com/weblog1/category1/title_of_the_post
http://domain.com/weblog1/category2/title_of_the_post
http://domain.com/weblog1/category3/title_of_the_post

this is what i’m using now but i can’t take it further, help please!!!

{exp:weblog:entries orderby="date" weblog="story|blog" limit="7" category="4|5|6|7|8|9|10"}
<a href="http://{if">{title}</a>
{/exp:weblog:entries}

what am i suppose to do to make this work, i’ve tried and tried and nothing works!!! my latest invention is this: IT DOES NOT WORK but in theory it’s exactly i what i need

{exp:weblog:entries orderby="date" weblog="story|blog" limit="7" category="4|5|6|7|8|9|10"}
<a href="http://{if">{title}</a>
{/exp:weblog:entries}

Have a look at Low’s Seg2Cat extension:
http://loweblog.com/freelance/article/ee-low-seg2cat-extension/

I think it’ll go a long way to help with what you’re trying to do.

thanks for the recomendation, this is useful but unfortunately not for my current problem

from Low Seg2Cat website

Low Seg2Cat loops through the segments of the current URI, matches them against existing categories, and registers the matching categories as global variables, which you can use in your templates.

this plugin work when the url is set. but what if the url is the root index. in fact what i’m trying to do is to setup the URL’s to categories and post from index (http://domain.com/)

I see what you mean now, but I think you are confusing weblogs with template groups here.
Also this sort of defeats the idea of a permalink which is 1 permanent url for any given article.
Why exactly do you need this kind of extreme customization?

to be honest i didn’t want it to be this complex, but i’ve got menus that highlight based on the category, the only way i could highlight or add class to a particular menu was through URL segment ... see code below for the menu:

<ul class="topic_nav">
<li class="first"></li>
                    
{exp:weblog:categories weblog="story" show_empty="no"}

<li><a href="http://{path=" title="my {category_name} pages" class="selected">{category_name}</a></li>
                    
{/exp:weblog:categories}
                                
</ul>

if there is a better of doing the above then i won’t need to go this complicated to make everything else work