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I need to create a site with the standard template/page URL structure (I can’t use the page module for this site) using just a few generic templates. Does anyone know of a way to effectively remove the name of the basic template from the URL? So instead of

<a href="http://www.domain.com/products/generic-template/myproducts">http://www.domain.com/products/generic-template/myproducts</a>

<a href="http://www.domain.com/products/myproducts">http://www.domain.com/products/myproducts</a>

Thanks,

Andrew

Hi Andrew,

One way to do this would be to use a rewrite rule in your .htaccess file. Do a Google search on something like this “.htaccess rewrite remove a url segment” and you’ll get plenty of info.

Alternatively, you could direct all requests to your ‘products/index’ template, and use a switch/conditional to embed the appropriate “sub-templates”. This is a little less efficient, but easy enough to do.

Something like this might work:

{if segment_2 == 'whatever'}
        {embed="products/whatever-template"}
{if:elseif segment_2 == 'something'}
        {embed="products/something-template"}
{if:elseif segment_3 != ''}
        {embed="products/another-template"}
{/if}

HTH

OK, that’s interesting, thanks very much for your help.

Andrew