What is the URL to link to (paginate-able) single entry from channel index or category

Question

I have an index page showing channel entries and also working as the category view.

I want to link to a single entry from either of the above states and then be able to paginate to the next / previous entry within context.

E.g. there are 400 entries. On the main index they show in groups of 20. A category view might show a subset of 70 entries, category 'foo'. I know how to paginate either of these index views. The URLs looks like:

/archive/P40 or

/archive/category/foo/P20

If I want to view a single entry in each state (and paginate) the URL's look like:

/archive/single/P40 or

/archive/single/category/foo/P20

What I can't figure out is how to code the links from the index page to the single entry versions.

Hope that makes sense. Can anyone help? Cheers

Answer 1

I'm not following 100% but I think you just need:

{title_permalink="archive/single"}

This will get you a URL like:

/archive/single/article-name-here-using-url-title

Answer 2

Untested answer here, but just a suggestion.

You want to be able to show a single entry url but also have a paginated listing on the same page?

Maybe from the initial listing, say /archive/P40, you could create links using {title_permalink='archive/single'}/{segment_2} or /archive/single/{url_title}/{segment_2}.

or links on /archive/category/foo/P40 you'd do {title_permalink='archive/single'}/category/{segment_3}/{segment_4} or /archive/single/{url_title}/category/{segment_3}/{segment_4}.

Then on your single entry article you'd use

{exp:channel:entries url_title="{segment_3}" dynamic="no" ...}

and for your listing - to be honest I don't know if it'll pick it up automagically from the url - but you could use Low Seg2Cat to help out.

{exp:channel:entries category="{segment_4_category_id}"}