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Hi all -

I’m looking to have a page template pull from one of two possible channels, depending upon the {segment_3} variable.  If the {segment_3} is equal to “associate”, I’d like to pull from a channel called “People”.  If it’s not, I’d like it to pull from a channel called “StaticContent”.

Currently I’m using this code:

{preload_replace:cur_channel="{if segment_3 == 'associate'}People{if:else}StaticContent{/if}"}
{preload_replace:cur_page="{if segment_3 == 'associate'}{segment_4}{if:else}directory{/if}"}
{exp:channel:entries channel="{cur_channel}" url_title="{cur_page}"}

If I hard code the preload_replace values everything works well, so I’m thinking that my approach to dynamically setting the value is faulty.  Is this approach viable using EE markup, or do I need to introduce PHP in to the mix to pull it off?

Thanks in advance for your help.
-brian

No, that’s not going to work; preload_replace is a simple text replacement called once, at the beginning of parsing. Try something like this:

{if segment_3 == "associate"}
   {exp:channel:entries channel="People" url_title="{segment_4}"} 
      {title} ...
   {/exp:channel:entries}
{if:else}
   {exp:channel:entries channel="StaticContent" url_title="directory"} 
      {title} ...
   {/exp:channel:entries}
{/if}

Ok. The inner bit of the template is fairly large so I’d hoped to not have to duplicate.  But I can make that work.

Thanks for your quick reply!
-brian

Ok. The inner bit of the template is fairly large so I’d hoped to not have to duplicate.

Use an embedded template then, passing on the relevant parameters to the sub-template.