suggestions on best approach for a large scale website
Development and Programming
I’m trying to see if i am heading the best path for a website i am building. The site is about automobiles and i want to divide it by /Country/State/City/Dealership/MakeModel/
I’d like to have my URLs end up looking like that as well, but this is where i am getting lost. I’m not exactly sure how to build the url in EE so that they might turn out in that style.
My thoughts are as follows:
Template Group: /usa/ Template Name: /CarsByState/
Category Group / subcategories: /usa/FL/Tampa/ -> then the rest would be the post from the entries.
Do you think this is the best approach?
Personally I’d go for Dynamic Parameters using Channel custom fields to filter the data, but that wouldn’t give you the log URL’s you’re looking for.
Another alternative would be to populate URL’s with custom field values and use multiple parameters in the Channel entries tag.
{exp:channel:entries channel="cars"
search:state="{segment_2}"
search:county="{segment_3}"
search:city="{segment_4}"
search:make="{segment_5}"}
hmm, maybe I’ll try to make the urls shorter by making more template groups.
its a little funny which this is difficult to do.
Are there any other plugins out there free or paid that give you more control over the urls?
I would take a look at Structure. I Highly recommend it
http://buildwithstructure.com/
-Tom