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I am trying to achieve the following setup, using just one template, and I hope someone can help point me to the best solution. Here it goes…

> If a user navigates to http://www.domain.com/news the ‘news’ template displays excerpts from the latest 5 channel entries, with additional entries being paginated.

> If a user navigates to http://www.domain.com/news/article_url_title the ‘news’ template displays one full channel entry based on the url_title passed in {segment_2}.

> If no results are returned based on {segment_2} the page redirects to a custom 404.

—I have done all the above, it’s this next bit I can’t figure out—

> If a user is looking at the paginated content at http://www.domain.com/news/P5 my existing code directs them to the 404 as I have no channel entries with ‘P5’ as the URL title.

So essentially, how do I go about saying:

If segment_2 && no results, redirect to 404, unless it's a paginated page?

I hope this makes sense and someone is able to help.

Many thanks in advance,

Chris

Hi Chris,

Are you using the /news/index.html page to do both of these things? If so, there are 2 ways you can do this:

Option1:
- Add a PHP if statement to your /news/index.html page that will check for the P# in segment2 and not display your detailed page. To do that add something like the following PHP:

<?php
if("{segment_2}" != "" && preg_match("/P[0-9]/i","{segment_2}") == 0){
....display the detailed channel entry page stuff
}
else{
....display the latest 5 excerpt and paginate if needed
}
?>

Doing it this way might require that you embed your channel entries tags for it to work properly.

Option2:
1) Create a new template called “view” in the “news” template group. You will use this template to display your channel details page.
2) Update your links to go to /news/view/article_url_title

I hope that helps.

Cheers,

Mike

Thanks for your response Mike.

Option 2 is how I’m currently going about it - but for a number of reasons I wish to avoid having the additional template ‘view’.

Option 1 looks perfect for what I want, so I’ll give that a go and let you know how I get on.

Many thanks again,

Chris

I have implemented your solution Mike (Option 1) and it works perfectly. Many thanks.

I’m glad it worked for you. All the best.

Mike

Ah - just run across an issue.

How would you go about this if PHP is passed at OUTPUT and not INPUT. I have it working when PHP is passed at input but if set to output, so other bits of the page can work, it fails at the preg_match stage and redirects to the 404.

Any suggestions?

Cheers, Chris

Ah, you will have to put your channel entries tags in another template and embed them. This is a parse order issue.

Ah Ok, will give that a go now. Thanks again for quick response. C