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2 detail pages?

Hello again

I have my equivalent portfolio.php (stag-hen-destinations.php) which details and lists cities where both hen and stags can go. All cities apply to both and with perch categories I have attributed a set Destinations with a Hen category and a Stag category and assigned both to each city.

On my individual stag and hen pages I have then generated a list of all cities which click through to the city info. This is fine but this page (my detail.php) destination.php is general for both and I need ideally a separate one for stag and hens so I can filter relevant activities underneath.

Can I somehow have two detail pages/templates? Or add a condition from page came from? I could create separate 'portfolio' pages for hen and stags but this would mean duplication numerous cities across both templates.

Hope this makes sense. Thank you.
Denise Courtney

Denise Courtney 0 points

  • 6 years ago
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

6 years ago

Yes, you can do any of those things, as far as I can see.

Which way do you want to do it?
Denise Courtney

Denise Courtney 0 points

6 years ago

Which would be the most straightforward?

I need to go from stag destinations to individual destination page complete with list of activities available. And the same for hen.

There is a lot of destinations and activities and the list will grow and will in future maybe add more categories/tags to filter if this makes a difference to my choice.
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

6 years ago

I would keep one detail page, but pass an extra query string argument on the link to pick which 'mode' to throw it into.
Denise Courtney

Denise Courtney 0 points

6 years ago

Can you give me a little more detail as to how to do this please.

My stag list page I'm coming from is coded with

<?php
  perch_content_custom('Destinations', array(
      'template' => 'dest-list.html',
      'page'=>'/stag-hen-destinations.php',
      'category' => perch_get('cat'),
    ));
  ?>

My list template is

<perch:before>
<ul style="list-style:none; list-style-type:none; margin:0px; padding:0px;">
</perch:before>
<li style="list-style:none; list-style-type:none">
<a href="https://epicweekends.co.uk/stag-hen-destinations.php?s=<perch:content id="slug" type="slug" />" style="color:#333">
<img style="margin-bottom:5px;  border:1px solid #666; border-radius:3px;" src="<perch:content type="image" id="destimage" width="250" height="167" crop="true" />" alt="<perch:content type="text" id="destcity" />" />
<div style="width:150px; position:relative; float:left"><h6><perch:content id="destcity" type="text" />
</h6></div>
<div style="width:75px; position:relative; float:left">
<img src="../../../images/more.png" alt="More info" width="100" border="0" ></div></a>
</li>
<perch:after>
</ul>
</perch:after>
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

6 years ago

Which element should change for your other detail pages?
Denise Courtney

Denise Courtney 0 points

6 years ago

No other element really just need to differentiate the path to then add another category filter.

If you check out the site so far ..

I have 2 pages listing all destinations...

https://epicweekends.co.uk/stag/stag-destinations.php https://epicweekends.co.uk/hen/hen-destinations.php

Both of these when you select a city go to for example: https://epicweekends.co.uk/destinations.php?s=bath

On this page underneath here I want to list a set of activities relevant hen or stag categories depending on where they have come from.

So I need to add category filters depending on whether they have come from hen or stag sections or send then 2 different ways from the start depending or where they are.

Thank you very much for your time and patience here.
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

6 years ago

So I would add something to the URL

?type=hen

and then check for it in the page

if (perch_get('type')=='hen') {
    ...  hen stuff ...
}
Denise Courtney

Denise Courtney 0 points

6 years ago

Sorry I back to this issue now.

where would I add something to the url?
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

6 years ago

When you create the link to the detail page.