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Hey all,

Noob here.  We are trying to wrap our heads around the best way to build out this site that we have.  It’s essentially 50 - 60 pages and each page would display just one entry.  From what I can tell this means we need to utilize the Channel Entries tag as such:

{exp:channel:entries channel="news" limit="1"}

The problem is that I’m not aware of a way to dynamically populate the “channel” parameter.  Is there any way to pull this in dynamically?  I’m thinking the only way is to pass the channel name into the URL and parse it that way?

Also, with this setup is it really required that we create a new channel every time we create a new page?

Hi, upshot. There are many ways to approach this. EE isn’t really a page based CMS, but you can have it act that way if needed.

You’d create a single entry page for each channel, not one per entry.

Say you wanted to have an About Us page and a Terms of Use page.

You’d create a channel called info (just a suggestion, you don’t need to call it that) and make two entries called About Us and Terms of Use.

You’d then make a template called news/info and pass in the name of the url_title.

So the url would be: http://example.com/index.php/news/info/about_us

-or-

http;//example.com/index.php/news/info/terms_of_use

The news/info template would “see” the third segment about_us or terms_of_use and grab the information based on the url_title.

You could use the second segment to make it more dynamic.

Here’s an example of the template:

{exp:channel:entries channel="{segment_2}" limit="1"}
...
{/exp:channel:entries}

This is a very basic way of handling things. You might also want to take a look at: The Importance of Semantics written by Lisa Wess.

Does that help?

Perfect!  Thanks so much for acting as a light to show us the way.  😊

Glad to see that helped. Please post again in case there’s anything else.