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Hi, I’m trying to display specific DIVs within a template dependent on what category url is presented in the browser.

I have tried the following, but it parses an error.

{if category="C4"}
{embed="includes/columnwide"}
{/if}

{if category="C5"}
{embed="includes/columnwidevocal"}
{/if}

The url for the first example being http://www.mysite.co.uk/portfolio/category/C4 and the second url being http://www.mysite.co.uk/portfolio/category/C4

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Scott,

The category id needs to be a whole number to work in your category conditional.

An easy way around this would be to use the segment conditional

{if segment_3 == "C4"}
{embed="includes/columnwide"}
{/if}

{if segment_3 == "C5"}
{embed="includes/columnwidevocal"}
{/if}

Or in fact if you want to be even smarter about it you could name your embeds columnwideC4 and columnwideC5
and then just add

{embed="includes/columnwide{segment_3}"}

Untested but in theory 😊

Hi, thanks this works great - just to clear something up for me, how did you determine the segment number? Why 3 and not 1, 2 or 4 or 5?

Sorry, just so much to learn ;(

It refers to your url: http://example.com/index.php/segment_1/segment_2/segment_3 ...

Thanks guys

Glad to see that helped. Please post again as needed.