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I’m having some brain grid-lock…probably I should come back to this in the morning. But have to finish…

I have a weblog and the entry page is pretty typical, displays entry fields, categories, etc. Then in the footer I display the 3 most recent entries posted and below that, more articles in the same category. To do that I pass the entry_id and categories to the footer embed, as follows:

{embed="includes/footer" entry="{entry_id}" categories="{categories backspace="1"}{category_id}|{/categories}"}

So in the footer embed I grab related entries needed, so for recent entries:

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="articles" status="Open" limit="3" {if embed:entry}entry_id="not {embed:entry}"{/if} dynamic="off"}

The problem I’m having now is that I need to add comments to my entry pages, and want to end the weblog:entries tag before the footer embed. My brain is locking.

Should I be passing the entry_id and categories to the footer at all? Or using the url to create the footer queries? If I could pass the entry_id and categories to local variables that could live outside the weblog:entries tag that would solve this. So should I do that, and if so how?

Ok, so a night of sleep does help.

One obvious way to pass entry_id, etc. outside the weblog:entries tag is to simply wrap the footer include in another weblog:entries tag pair. I was hoping to avoid unnecessary DB calls and would still appreciate any input on best practices for this.

I know I could also pass the entry_id, etc. to a php var by allowing PHP in the template but I’m a little unclear as to what would be more efficient resource-wise and need to find some examples as I’m still newb/hacker level in PHP.