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I have a matrix field that contains some audio/visual resources. The matrix field gives a url to the resource. The 2 resources are kept in 2 different folders to make it easier to clean out later.

I am using shadowbox.js and it works well. It uses the url to the resource. The issue is that the customer also wants a page that is formatted in the style of their website that plays the resource. In other words, the url points to the resource itself rather than a page.

Any ideas on how I could set things up to pass a page a url that plays the resource in context of the site design and still work as a direct resource?

URL segments could be useful here:

If you have your matrix page at say site.com/group/page/entry-name you could use Matrix’s row_id variable to create custom URL’s for each matrix item, eg

{if segment_4 == ""}
{matrix_field}
<a href="http://site.com/group/page/entry-name/{row_id}">{matrix_field_name}</a>
{/matrix_field}
{if}

That would give you Matrix generated URL’s for each of your resources, eg:
site.com/group/page/entry-name/11
site.com/group/page/entry-name/12
site.com/group/page/entry-name/13

You could then use a conditional to test for the row_id segment and output your stuff there to mimick a single page:

{if segment_4 != ""}
{matrix_field row_id="{segment_4}"}
Your resource content
{/matrix_field}
{/if}