Channel entry not displaying

Question

RE: How to display Channel entry page?

The accepted solution doesn't seem to work for me. My "products/index" template has something like this:

{exp:channel:entries channel="products" limit="10" orderby="date" sort="desc"}
   <a href=/products/detail/{url_title}">{name}</a>
{/exp:channel:entries}

Then in "products/detail" template, I have something like this:

{exp:channel:entries channel="products" limit="1"}
   <h2>{name}</h2>
   <p>{description}</p>
{/exp:channel:entries}

The "products/detail" page always shows the same record (and when you look at the tag pair, it make sense I think). How is this template supposed to know which record specifically to access? What is it about {url_title} that hints to which entry to retrieve? Is there something I need to put in the tag pair to tell it to use the {url_title} segment?

Answer 1

Your code is correct, and should work. EE will always look at the third segment for either an entry_id or url_title, unless you specifically add dynamic="no" to your Channel Entries tag. So although the suggestions that you specify entry_id="{segment_3}" or url_title="{segment_3}" will work, they should not be necessary.

Note that in your first code sample, you should use {permalink="products/detail"} or {title_permalink="products/detail"} - more future-proof.

Answer 2

You could add url_title="{segment_3}" to the channel entries tag in the products/detail template.

Answer 3

On your details template, you can add two parameters to the entries loop that should solve this - add dynamic="no" and url_title="{segment_3}".