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January 30, 2011 9:32am

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  • #1 / Jan 30, 2011 9:32am

    bottleboot

    54 posts

    Hi there,

    I’m fairly new to EE. I can manage my way around CI tough.
    At the moment I am a bit confused about the way EE handles things.
    My question is the following:

    If i want to make a catalog of lets say groceries and divide these into a simple basic structure like these:

    site.com/grocery_group/grocery/kind/
    eg
    site.com/fruit/apples/pink_lady/


    I know that i now can make a template for each new ‘grocery_group’ i add than populate them with the groceries through a channel.
    How can I do this in a way that i load my grocery_group into the the template dynamically since they are the same for each template?

    For this structure, do i need 3 channels or 2 and 1 category?

    I know there is a very good tutorial on train-ee.com about setting up something like this but they handle their pages like this, with a ‘sub-folder’ in the URL:

    http://small-business.train-ee.com/index.php/products/detail/custom-driveshafts/
    so in my case that would result in something close to this:
    site.com/category/fruit/products/apples/detail/pink_lady/
    while i would like to have:
    site.com/fruit/apples/pink_lady/

    Any ideas, alternatives?
    Or topics place i should look to get an answer?

    Thanks!

  • #2 / Jan 30, 2011 12:30pm

    bottleboot

    54 posts

    So apparently I am not the only one struggling with this and i found a nice tutorial which will help me further!
    For people stumbling upon the same problem, here it is:
    http://420creative.com/blog/entry/showing-child-categories-based-on-hierarchy-in-expression-engine/

  • #3 / Jan 30, 2011 12:50pm

    bottleboot

    54 posts

    Hmmm found more on this inside the forum.
    http://ellislab.com/forums/viewthread/71238/

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