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Hello,

I’m trying to figure out why my URL isn’t working the way that it is supposed to. For this particular template, the structure is as such:

http://www.example.com/latest/{category}/{url_title}

So latest is segment_1, the category is segment 2, and the url_title from the post is segment_3. At the beginning of the code I’m parsing the URL, but I’m not getting the results that I would expect. Even with multiple segments, I hit the “404” error from the results right away. Here is the code:

{!-- Break Apart URL for Page Processing --}
{if segment_3!=""}

 {!-- Segment 3 Exists: Check URL for Validity --}
 {exp:channel:entries
  channel="latest"
  url_title=segment_3
  disable="categories|category_fields|custom_fields|member_data|pagination"
  limit="1"}

  {if no_results}
   {!-- Entry Not Found: 404 --}
  {if:else}
   {!-- Entry Found: Display Single Post --}
  {/if}
 {/exp:channel:entries}

{if:else}

 {!-- Segment 3 Does Not Exist: Begin Segment 2 Breakdown --}
 {if segment_2!=""}

  {if segment_2=="history"}
   {!-- Segment 2 is History: Display Full Post History --}
  {if:else}
   {!-- Top Level is at Category Level (2): Verifying Category Exists --}
   {exp:query
    sql="SELECT cat_id, cat_name
    FROM exp_categories
    WHERE cat_url_title = '{segment_2}'
    LIMIT 1"}
    {if no_results}
     {!-- Category Does Not Exist: Redirect to Home --}
    {if:else}
     {!-- Category Exists: Displaying Category Feed --}
    {/if}
   {/exp:query}
  {/if}
 {if:else}
  {!-- No Segment 2 or 3: Display All Content --}
 {/if}
{/if}

Let me know if I can provide anything else that can illuminate the issue. Thanks in advance!

Hi Andy,

I think you have a typo in the first channel entries tag. Try changing it to the following:

...
{!-- Segment 3 Exists: Check URL for Validity --}
 {exp:channel:entries
  channel="latest"
  url_title="{segment_3}"
  disable="categories|category_fields|custom_fields|member_data|pagination"
  limit="1"}

  {if no_results}
   {!-- Entry Not Found: 404 --}
  {if:else}
   {!-- Entry Found: Display Single Post --}
  {/if}
 {/exp:channel:entries}
....

The url_title parameter needs to be url_title=”{segment_3}”. I hope that helps.

Cheers,

Mike

Hey everyone,

I found the solution and it wasn’t what I expected. When I checked out Low’s post on snippets and variables, the issue became apparent:

http://gotolow.com/blog/snippets-and-preload-replace-variables

I figured the nested code in this wasn’t important to post, but in fact, it was. To help optimize the code later in the page, each section has its own preload_replace attached to it. As it turns out, preload_replace will only accept one instance of a declaration. This can be changed by using {if} statements, however, the conditionals have to be simple. Since I have {if}{else}, it will parse too late and it is defaulting ot using the first instance of my preload_replace.

Restructuring my content into simple statements solves the problem. I hope this helps someone in the future!