Dynamic Template Name in URL
How Do I?
Hi, I want to display a list of categories an entry is assigned to, and these categories should link back to their respective pages. Now those categories are attached to different templates so I need to display the template name dynamically for each category (hope it makes sense…)
I created this query:
{exp:query sql="SELECT template_name FROM exp_templates WHERE template_id = ‘{template_group}’”}{template_name}{/exp:query}
but unfortunately it still doesn’t display my template name.
To give you an idea, if I use this query:
{exp:query sql="SELECT group_name FROM exp_category_groups WHERE group_id = '{category_group}’”}{group_name}{/exp:query}
Then the group name shows correctly, but I don’t need the group name, I need the template name!
In case you want to see my code in action:
http://www.dev.ogaora.com/mcf/people/partner/david-byers
On the right below the thumbnail, the Practice Areas are the categories I want to link back to.
Any suggestions to point to the right direction?
Thanks in advance!
For the practice area categories what URL’s are you trying to create?
For the practice area categories what URL’s are you trying to create?
The categories are Finance, Corporate, Real Estate and Industry Sectors so the URL segments would be “finance”, “corporate”, “real-estate”, “industry-sectors”.
You could add a custom category field to hold the template name, then in your categories tag:
So to get the template name “corporate” create a custom category field called something like cat_template. Update your categories with the template name.
Then in your categories tag something like this:
{exp:channel:categories}
<a href="/mcf/people/partner/{cat_template}/{category_url_title}">{category_name}</a>
{/exp:channel:categories}You could add a custom category field to hold the template name, then in your categories tag: So to get the template name “corporate” create a custom category field called something like cat_template. Update your categories with the template name. Then in your categories tag something like this:{exp:channel:categories} <a href="/mcf/people/partner/{cat_template}/{category_url_title}">{category_name}</a> {/exp:channel:categories}
That would be a great solution but it only works with one category group, I can’t use the same {cat_template} tag for all my Category Groups…
I eventually ditched Category Groups altogether and used Parent/Child category relationship… thanks for your help anyway!
No problem, at least you found a way of working round the problem, there’s always more than one way with EE!