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I'd like to use some templates to display content at segment 4 of the URL.
http://example.com/news/world/australia/melbourne
News and World have their own templates and Australia is channel entry that uses the same template as World. I'd like to extend the Australia channel entry to Melbourne and use a new template but not sure how?
There are probably other ways to do it, but you could…
Turn off dynamic processing of url's since segment_3 will not be an article title. Then use {if} statements. For example, something like:
{if segment_3 =="australia" AND segment_4 ==""}
<p>return this</p>
{if:else segment_3 =="australia" AND segment_4 =="melbourne"}
{embed="australia/cities"}
{/if}
Your template to process city information, would then be displayed on the country template. It's like setting up a single page site processor, within a template group. Basically, you are controlling the url with various {if} statements.
My only concern here would be about the potential number of cities you'd like to display. Manual specification of the cities pretty much means manual modification of template every time a new city is added. You might want something more flexible to add cities on the fly.
{if} statements cumbersome. But it as an option.
– Bryan Hickey
Feb 19 '14 at 22:29
