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here’s the problem. i have a template that is working as an article page on my site. it has no problem displaying data with exp:weblog:entries from the current weblog but not other weblogs.

for example: i’m in the case studies section of my website on the case studies homepage. there’s a footer on the page that is using exp:weblog:entries to pull contact information data from the contact weblog and it works fine. once i click through to a case studies article, the contact information in the footer no longer appears.

i feel like it has something to do with the URL.

when i use this URL, everything shows up on the page:
http://www.example.com/index.php/case_studies/study/

but when i use this URL (which is the URL to the article/study), the contact footer information doesn’t show up:
http://www.example.com/index.php/case_studies/study/fictional_company_1/

here’s my code, for those that are interested (and yes, i have PHP parsing turned on.. like i said, this works fine on other higher sectioned pages.. but, for sub-sections, not.) this is just the footer code and i made sure that all of my code on the page is correct. when i comment out all the other code on the page this footer code still doesn’t work on these sub-section pages! weird.

<div id="footer">{exp:weblog:entries weblog="contact" disable="categories|member_data|pagination|trackbacks" search:title="=Contact Us" sort="asc"}
    <div id="footer-contact">
<span class="contact-info">(o) {contact_office_phone_number}</span><span class="contact-info">(f) {contact_fax_number}</span><span class="contact-info">{contact_email_address}</a></span>
    </div>
    <div id="footer-address">
<nobr><span class="contact-info"><?php
$raw_address = "{contact_address}";
$formatted_address = str_replace("","",$raw_address);
$formatted_address = str_replace("
"," | ",$formatted_address);
?><?php echo $formatted_address ?></span><span class="contact-info"><a href="http://www.design-systems.net" title="Built by Design-Systems" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ds</a></span></nobr>
    </div>{/exp:weblog:entries}
</div>

PHP parsing is either done for input or output. If you are in a loop, you need to be using output.

But in any case, why PHP? Why not use an embedded template?

You can set {contact_address} to be formatted as none.

it is set to output (and i’m using PHP here to reformat some data stored in another weblog for use in the footer) and works fine on every other page on the website EXCEPT here in a sub-section of this weblog. i don’t think that it has anything to do with the PHP but i do think that it has something to do with that last bit of the URL. i tried taking out all the PHP and still the contact information doesn’t show up in this template.

in the footer {exp:weblog:entries} tag, make sure to have

dynamic="off"

or it’s not going to populate on a url like:  http://www.example.com/index.php/case_studies/study/fictional_company_1/

-greg

greg, thank you!!! that worked. now i completely understand what that dynamic parameter does. before this i really had no idea how to use it 😊 thanks again.

Hee- yea, once you actually run into an issue where you need to use it, the dynamic parameter suddenly becomes clear.  My thanks as well, Greg.

We good to close this one out?

yes thank you. it can be closed 😊

Is done 😉