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Im learning EE from some screencasts. In a template group I have the templates index, show and view. What controlls which template is used by a page, and what controlls what template group is used?
Thanks

It’s all controlled by the URL.  If EE sees a URL with a correct template group name it starts looking there:

http://mysite.com/index.php/about/ - EE looks for a template group named “about”.

http://mysite.com/index.php/about/our-building - Now EE looks for a “our-building” template in the about template group. If it doesn’t find one it falls back to displaying the about/index template assuming there is an entry with the url-title of our-building./

Unless you tell EE otherwise by setting the “dymamic=“no” parameter everywhere it’s all URL driven.

URL’s cause EE to pull templates, or entries into templates.  You code templates to control what content EE pulls from it’s database to push through a template to become a final rendered page.

Thanks

So is the only reason for creating more than 1 template group to control the url? If you weren’t concerned about the url output could you just use 1?

You could. I did on my first EE sites.  But there’s no penalty for using more template groups, it keeps your templates more organized, and cleaner URLs to boot.

RDF Group,

Does Mike’s last answer clear everything up for you here or do you have further questions?

Yes, all cleared up, thanks. In future should I post a comment saying so?

Hi, RDF Group.. if you post that your issue has been solved, you could either say so in the post, or edit the topic to say [SOLVED] before the title of the post. It makes it easier to close threads.

If anything else comes up, please do let us know in a new thread..