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Flexible weblog entry searching by passing URL segments.
- Posted by moogaloo
- October 07, 2009
- 1 person has found this tip helpful.
Inspired by Justin’s tip passing variables via the URL, something similar I’ve used is for an album review site to give additional search options:
a weblog for the album review may also include other info, eg label, artist, year, city, country whic you may then want to be links that take you to a page of all other albums by that artist, on the same label, from teh same city.
Artist: <a href="http://eeinsider.com/albums/search/artist/{artist/"}">{artist}</a>
Label: <a href="http://eeinsider.com/albums/search/label/{label/"}">{label}</a>
City: <a href="http://eeinsider.com/albums/search/city/{city/"}">{city}
then on the next page, display results using a simple weblog entries and the search parameter:
{exp:weblog:entries weblog="albums" search:{segment_3}="{segment_4}" disable="pagination|trackbacks" orderby="title" sort="asc"}
the downside of using the URLs to pass variables to pages, is the 404 issue - not sure how well you could manage those as you need the flexability to have URLs not relating to pages.
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