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Hello all, not really having an issue, just trying to understand how something is working.  I’m creating a blog for my EE site, so I have a channel called “blog”.  The custom fields I have for the channel are “content” and “summary”.  If there is a summary entered for the record, I’m outputting that, as well as a “Read More” link created with “title_permalink”.  I’m using “blog/article/name-of-article” style title_permalinks.  My blog/article template is the exact same as the blog/index.  When I go to the blog/article template, it just works!  This is great, I’m just trying to understand how the proper article is being selected, as both templates use:

{exp:channel:entries channel='blog'}
{title}
....
{/exp:channel:entries}

Thanks for any insights anyone can offer.

It’s just magic! But seriously, take a look at the “dynamic” parameter of {exp:channel:entries}:

http://ellislab.com/expressionengine/user-guide/modules/channel/parameters.html#par_dynamic

Basically, by default, EE will use the URL to determine what to show if there is relevant info in there, in this case it’s the {url_title} it sees. It can also cause problems sometimes depending on how you want to display data, so in that case, set dynamic=“no”.

Awesome, thanks Kevin.  So the code used to display a single entry still requires the:

{exp:channel:entries channel='blog'}
...
{/exp:channel:entries}

Just wasn’t sure if those variables (like {title} or {author}) are available without needing the looping structure.

Yep that’s all you need, all your channel variables should work just fine. Though I would change it slightly to make sure it only shows what it’s supposed to and redirects to a 404 if nothing is found:

{exp:channel:entries channel='blog' require_entry='yes' limit='1'}
{if no_results}{redirect='404'}{/if}
...
{/exp:channel:entries}

Done and done.  Thanks for the help and good suggestions!

Thanks Kevin. Feel free Greg, to start a new thread if you have any more questions.