In the template system it is necessary to set one template as default.

If using template system to create hyperlink lines (typical newsreel), a headlines template is created and selected as default.


Then all RSS feeds point to headline template and not a story.

Please clarify user misunderstanding of how this should be set-up.

You select 1 template as the default template, this gets used for display your news if you don't manually specify a template in the include code.

i created a headline newsreel using

<?php
$template = "headlines";
include './news/index.php';
?>

the result is list of hyperlink article headlines.


On clicking link, opens article page but the content still calls "headlines" template.



im sorry, i know im being really thick but I cant see how to call the "article template" eg "3.3 Ajax Template"

could you indicate what it is that I am missing ?

When you specify a template in your include code, when you then click on one of the headlines that include generates, the page refreshes and shows that particular article, because you're on the same page which has the same include you're still assigning the template to it that you've specified.

So what you need to do is make your links redirect to another page that has an include on it, but doesn't have the $template variable specified.

So for example, this is your headlines include



The code for that headlines template change to something like this



This will make the headlines show and once clicked it'll redirect to the page "fullstory.php"

Then on the fullstory.php page create a normal include but don't specify a template like so



What will happen now is, on your headlines page, users will see the headlines, click on one, get sent to fullstory.php, on this page it'll display the full article and use whatever is the default template.

Chris

I understood this !

Executed, solved and working.


Thanks very much.....

Chris

Will friendly URLs work in this arrangement ?
Friendly URL doesnt seem to pass ...

Friendly URLs won't work with this setup.

Ok. Thanks Chris