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Hello,

I don’t seem to be able to have entries on the index page have URI’s with a structure like: index.php/channel/category/entry-url-title which links to a single entry template to show all the details.

I would then like to have a template for “index.php/channel/category” to dynamically show all the entries in that category.

Sounds simple, but I guess I got a bit rusty eheh 😊

Thanks

Do you mean something like this?

http://eehowto.com/index.php/howto/archives/category/howto

See the list of categories on the right?

Yeh but the entries should then have a the category in their url. In that example they have articles, and I’d like them to have howto

archives is my template name.. are you going to only have one category per entry?

Yes only 1 category per entry

Then I’d use the Pages module and build out the url you like for your individual entries. This won’t help with the urls for the individual archive pages themselves..

For each entry every time?

Is channel an actual name of the channel, or a template name?

Channel meaning name of the channel, in my case ‘orologi’. And category as name of the category the entry belongs to, for example ‘rolex’.

So I’d like to have index.php/orologi/rolex/title-of-the-entry

And if I stop at /rolex/ I see all the entries belonging to that rolex category.

And if at /orologi/ I see all the entries of the channel

Hi Maxi!

I get the example of how that should work to you in a jiffy.

Great, cannot wait 😊

Hi Maxi,

I have this set up using the following settings:

* {site_url} = http://www.example.com/index.php

* I made the template_group the default for the site.

* I put the following test code into the index of the template_group mentioned above:

{!--
This code just shows basic /channel/category_url_title/url_title processing
Assumes  this code is placed in the default index. If not, the segments will need to be incremented  
Segment 1 = desired channel
Segment 2 = category url title
segment 3 = channel entry url title
--}
{exp:channel:entries channel="{segment_1}" {if segment_3 != ""} url_title="{segment_3}"{/if} }
{if segment_3 != ""}
  {!-- We have an entry --}
  <h1>{title}</h1>
  
{if:else}
  {!-- No entry found --}
  {categories}
  {if segment_2 != ""}
    {!-- We have a category --)
    {if category_url_title == "{segment_2}"}
    <a href="http://{site_url}/{channel_short_name}/{segment_2}/{url_title}">{entry_id}: {title}</a>

    {picture_1}

    {/if}
  {if:else}
     {!-- No category --}
    <a href="http://{site_url}/{channel_short_name}/{category_url_title}/{url_title}">{entry_id}: {title}</a>

    {picture_1}

  {/if}
  {/categories}
{/if}
{/exp:channel:entries}

You should note that this will need to 404 checking to make it more robust.

Hope this helps you out!

Sincerely,
Barry

Ohhh it looks really good, let me try it out and see 😊

It works great! 😊

Being the same template there are then 2 details that need to change:

– The number of entries shown (only 6 on main page and all entries on category page)
– The page title (to include details of category and entry)

How to tweak that?

HI maxi,

I am moving this post to the codeshare corner. As this kind of help is outside of the regular tech support. I will still continue to help you! 😊

Change

{exp:channel:entries channel="{segment_1}" {if segment_3 != ""} url_title="{segment_3}"{/if} }

into:

{exp:channel:entries channel="{segment_1}" {if segment_3 != ""} url_title="{segment_3}"{/if} {if segment_2 == ""} limit="3"{/if} }

and you will get 6 entries when there is nothing in segment 2.