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I have been wrapping my head around the use of variables and EE’s url structure for a project that I am working on.  I found a solution that seems to be working however I don’t understand why so am hoping someone at Ellis Labs or another dev might explain/confirm.

Going to try this without a lot of background info as not sure it is needed.

I needed to pass a segment url to a template however what to display a category of weblog data and allow for pagination and other features that rely on the url structure to function.  I found that if put the segment variable between the template segments and the category segments it seems to work automagically. 

Wondering if there is something about EE’s path processing that I missed in the documentation that explains this.

Here is the structure:

<a href="http://something.com/&#91templategroup&#93/&#91template&#93/&#91segment_variable&#93/&#91categoryflag&#93/&#91cat_url_title&#93">http://something.com/[templategroup]/[template]/[segment_variable]/[categoryflag]/[cat_url_title&#93</a>;

Again the above structure loads the right template, allows me to pull in {segment_3} and dynamically displays the the right category of data from the weblog in my weblog tag.  It also works with pagination which appends the “P1” ... to the end of the path.

So again, my question is why does this work? 😊