Problems with pages module and page url

Question

At the moment I'm strugling with the pages module and the page uri. I have the following page created with the pages module:

members
 |- members/calendar
 |- members/safety

When I visit the URL www.mypage.com/members I will see the correct page.

When I visit the URL www.mypage.com/members/calendar, I will see the correct page.

But when I visit the URL www.mypage.com/members/calendar/2013-12, the /members page is shown.

But I need the calendar page and the last segment is a kind of variable. I use the Low Events calandar on the calandar page. Strict URL is "off".

If I put a question mark in the url www.mypage.com/members/calendar/?2013-12 the calandar is shown, but now there is no segment_3 that I can use in selecting the month in the low events calendar.

How do I fix this issue?

Answer 1

This is what the Template Routes add-on was made for. In your EE config.php, add your template routes config:

$config['template_routes'] = array(
  ':page:XX/(\d{4}-\d{2})' => 'site/member-calendar',
);

where XX is the entry_id of the members/calendar entry and 'site/member-calendar' is the template_group/template_name of your template.

Answer 2

Since you want the page content to be dynamic and not static the proper way to do this would be via the regular ExpressionEngine group/template/entry url parsing structure.

The Pages module is really for making "static" content. It looks for specific URLs and will not look for partial URLs then take the remainder as parameters - this is what the normal URL parsing is for.

Why are you using it in preference for the "normal" method in this case?

Because there is no Pages URL for /members/calendar/2013-12 the system defaults back to regular URL parsing which is why you get the members page.