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Hi Folks,

Have been using Expression Engine for a while but ran into the following problem:

How do I conditionally display content exclusive to a permalink title?

Consider the following scenario:

1 > http://www.domain.com/blog <—displays all blog articles subject to pagination rules.

2 > http://www.domain.com/blog/article_name (The permalink article)

3 > http://www.domain.com/blog/C/category  <—- displays all articles corresponding to a given category

I’m able to conditionally display only {summary} content for 1 and 3 using the if_category_request and if not_category_request fields.

I’m using a simple {if:else} to redirect to the permalink article with {summary}{body}{extended}
It is here I want to embed a third party commenting system - Disqus

How do I ensure the URL’s like http://www.domain.com/Px/ or www.domain.com/year/month/xx don’t trip this? (Eg: When you visit the parent blog it shows only a summary of articles with a link to read more.  It does the same for categories, by only showing a summary).  But when you click on a date range it shows all the articles with all the detail - how do I ensure that even date range URL request only show a summary?

The only rules within expression engine I can find explicitly allow me to single out a category request but not a date or pagination request.

Sorry in advance if this is a naive question, but it’s really throwing me for a loop.  Another way to ask this question is how do I ensure that any summary list (be it category / date / etc) shows only a article summary and only when a fully qualified URL is passed to a single article shows it in full detail?

I was hoping there was a command like {if title_permalink} ...

vorari:

Not a bad question at all.  You are running into a problem that can crop up when you don’t use a /template_group/template/url_title setup for your links.

You’re going to need to use some php to evaluate the URL to make sure it doesn’t contain a “P” for pagination in it.  Honestly, I’d go with the /template_group/template/url_title setup, as there are less conditionals to mess with & your templates will be leaner & quicker.

-greg

Hi Greg,

Actually we are.  The blog has the template group: latest_news.  Within this is the index template.  So I’m trying to understand what I’m missing.  Do I need another generic entry template on top of this?

(The blog is largely based of the default expression engine default blog when it’s installed)

Eg: Compare this behaviour on the direct expression engine site:

http://expressionengine.com/blog/

(You get a summary of blog entries with a permalink / read more option)

vs.

http://expressionengine.com/blog/2009/06

(You get a summary of blog entries with a permalink / read more option)

You get the same behaviour here.

That’s all I’m trying to do.  If I have missed something extremely basic do let me know.

Thanks,

Nagib

Sorry, I’m confused.  So this is the “index” template group of the site in a template group called “latest_news”, right?

template group = latest_news
template = index

so http://www.domain.com/latest_news

When called without a url title - it’s http://www.domain.com/latest_news/index

All I am trying to do is ensure that in all cases where any listing page is called - eg: http://www.domain.com/latest_news or www.domain.com/yyyy/mm/ or categories that a summary is shown.

My latest_news template has 3 fields: {summary} {body} {extended}

So I’m looking for something like this:

index template:

emded: header
weblog entries tag

if not a permalink title page (eg: a fully qualified URL)
{
  {summary}
}

{if:else}
  {summary}
  {body}
  {extended}
{/if}

This is the same logic on the expression engine blog.

Is C your custom category word?

Hi Sue,

Yes.

If there is a simpler way to do it I’m genuinely stumped.  But the expression engine blog does exactly the same thing I’m trying to do:

Have every view defaults to displaying a brief {summary} with the option to “read more”, while the permalink article displays the full body.  But this logic should apply to all URLs that are not explicitly a permalink.

Something like

if segment_3 is a url_title, show the body, otherwise display the summary?

exactly..  but how do I specify that logic?

I know it must exist because I see that behaviour on the EE site.

Hence the title - Can you have

{if segment_3 == url_title}

??

Actually in this case it’s segment_2 == url_title, trying it out

works perfectly… so simple, can’t believe I missed that one.  Many thanks.

N.

vorari:

Everything seems to be working for you now?

-greg

Hi Greg,

Yes - many thanks.  I didn’t realise I could do a simple test like if segment_2 == {url_title} and tried to do that complex logic above.  Cheers.

Glad to see you’re all set. Please don’t hesitate to post again as needed.