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imjakechapman
Posted: 30 March 2012 07:43 AM   [ Ignore ]
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Ok, I’m brand new to EE.. just finally figuring out how channels work as a container of data, which you attach channel fields to those channels for basically the equivalent of a wordpress custom post type.

My question is, I can’t seem to figure out how to go more then 3 segments deep.

my goal is to have this set up for my portfolio section of my site.

http://www.mysite.com/work/<- type of work here ->/<- project name here -> 

I have it set up now as a channel called “WORK”.
with some channel fields for a featured image, the role I played for that project, and programs used.
as well as category fields set up so that I can choose wether the work is Photography, Design or Video.

I have my http://www.mysite.com/work that your on and choose which type of work they want to be displayed, lets say they want to see all my design work. the link I have is

<a href="{path='work/design'}">Design&Development;</a> 

which will take me to the template group Work, and use the template Design.

Now being on this design template, it takes all the entries that I have marked Design or Development or Graphics or Print and displays them in separate divs style accordingly.

But how the heck to a take it one step further?

to allow them to click on each individual piece of work which would take them to another custom template that shows each piece the same way. so they would end up clicking on lets say a album artwork project. that they could end up on

http://www.mysite.com/work/design/repossess-album-artwork 

or maybe even

http://www.mysite.com/work/design/project/repossess-album-artwork 


I was doing so good figure it out the past day, and now im just stumped! completely at a halt with no idea what to do, I’ve read all about segments, which I get that you can have the url_title be segment 3, but it still doesn’t display the content any different.


AHH please help, my head hurts! :-D

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the3mus1can
Posted: 30 March 2012 09:39 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]   [ Rating: 0 ]
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This can be accomplished in a few different ways, but I typically use this (https://github.com/themusicman/Sherlock) plugin for helping deal with template routing. It basically allows you to setup login to route the request to different embeds.

{exp:sherlock:page_type}

    //should match /blog
    {if is_listing && is_not_category} 
        {embed="blog/.listing"}
    {/if} 

     //should match /blog/category-url-title
    {if is_category}
        {exp:sherlock:category_id category_url_title="{segment_2}"}
            {if no_results}
                {redirect="404"}
            {/if}
            {embed="blog/.listing" category_id="{category_id}"}
        {/exp:sherlock:category_id}
    {/if} 

     //should match /blog/entry-url-title
    {if is_entry}
        {embed="blog/.entry" url_title="{segment_2}"}
    {/if}
{/exp:sherlock:page_type} 

The example here doesn’t exactly match your URL structure, but it could be modified to.  Take a look at the docs at all the conditionals that are available. You can also put the segment variables in the conditionals too. ex: {if segment_3 && is_entry}

 

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