Opus Comments

Comment on Train up a child in the way he should go by Matt

2009-11-20T14:14:29Z

ahhh, that is so precious! You’re never too young to have a gamertag.

Comment on Does Christmas need saving? by Mike

2009-11-14T13:16:24Z

I’ve often said that we should focus more on putting Christ back in Christians than in Christmas.

Comment on Groovin' to "Black Dynamite" by Rocky

2009-11-13T01:24:12Z

Adrian Younge wears his influences really well on that score.

Weird the way the drums on “Rafelli Chase” remind me of a Thrill Jockey band, though (like the first Trans Am record).

Comment on In Sea by Nicholas

2009-11-11T23:09:36Z

!
I really enjoyed Pure Tone Audiometry, especially Ocean (I think the mixcd I slipped that song onto convinced my wife to marry me), but haven’t listened to this band since.
2 minutes into Hollow Earth Theory and I am sold.

Comment on In Sea by Matt

2009-11-11T16:36:47Z

Great review Jason. I checked out some of Aarktica’s stuff on last.fm, and dug it. Will definitely have to look at getting this album.

FWIW, you can compare Aarktica’s Am I Demon? with Danzig’s original version Both are pretty good song in their own right, but what Aarktica has done to reinvent Am I Demon feels like night and day from the original. Brilliant.

Comment on "Faking" single-entry pages with ExpressionEngine, FieldFrame, and FF Matrix by Jason

2009-11-07T14:05:17Z

@Boyink: No problem. I guess there’s a first time for everything! :)

Comment on "Faking" single-entry pages with ExpressionEngine, FieldFrame, and FF Matrix by Boyink

2009-11-06T21:18:57Z

I must say..it’s odd to be on the receiving end of an EE tut - but thanks for this one as I used on a client site I’m currently building.

Comment on The glory of God is man fully alive by valis

2009-11-05T20:27:27Z

Ha, I was thinking of Gene Wolfe.

Comment on "Faking" single-entry pages with ExpressionEngine, FieldFrame, and FF Matrix by Jason

2009-11-03T14:15:48Z

@John: Do you have the “require_entry” parameter in your {exp:weblog:entries} tag set to “yes” (more info)?

Comment on "Faking" single-entry pages with ExpressionEngine, FieldFrame, and FF Matrix by Andy Marshall

2009-11-03T14:03:30Z

I am indeed.
But regardless of the redirect=“404”, even with Strict URLs on to point to the 404 page, a URL like domain.com/blog/entry/nonsensical_title_njknknk is still taking me to blog pages, not a 404 page.
simlarly, domain.com/blog/ent is taking me to the blog index template.

Comment on "Faking" single-entry pages with ExpressionEngine, FieldFrame, and FF Matrix by Jason

2009-11-03T13:05:15Z

@Andy: Are you putting the {if no_results} conditional inside your {exp:weblog:entries} tags?

Comment on "Faking" single-entry pages with ExpressionEngine, FieldFrame, and FF Matrix by Andy Marshall

2009-11-03T11:20:24Z

A bit OT, but I’ve tried getting the redirect=“404” into a entry template, and whether strict URLs are on or off, its just displaying the closest page it can figure out based on what is in the URL, so I’m not even getting close to redirecting to a 404 page.
hmm.

Comment on "Faking" single-entry pages with ExpressionEngine, FieldFrame, and FF Matrix by Jérôme Coupé

2009-11-03T11:13:13Z

Did something similar a while ago ...

http://expressionengine.com/forums/viewthread/113020/

... but I never thought of using the offset parameter in that way. Very clever. Thank you

Comment on "Faking" single-entry pages with ExpressionEngine, FieldFrame, and FF Matrix by Andy Marshall

2009-11-03T09:32:44Z

Cool - thanks for that - will drop that into their site today :)

Comment on "Faking" single-entry pages with ExpressionEngine, FieldFrame, and FF Matrix by Jason

2009-11-02T22:40:10Z

@Andy: I’ve used the technique that Cornelius mentions a couple of times, and it works really well. More info here.

@John: You’re right, that would work, if the client wants a more SEO-friendly title than just a numeric ID. You’d probably have to add two columns to the matrix, one for “title” and one for “URL title”, though, and do this:

search:entry_gallery_url_title=”{segment_5}”

Comment on "Faking" single-entry pages with ExpressionEngine, FieldFrame, and FF Matrix by John Faulds

2009-11-02T22:02:04Z

Oops, sorry, copied the search parameter code from the Fieldframe docs; should’ve been search:entry_gallery_title=”{modified_segment_5}”.

Comment on "Faking" single-entry pages with ExpressionEngine, FieldFrame, and FF Matrix by John Faulds

2009-11-02T22:00:52Z

Alternatively, you could use the {entry_gallery_title} in your gallery URL (with spaces replaced by - ) and then on the single entry page do search:speaker_confirmed=”{modified_segment_5}”.

It would be a bit more fiddly converting the title into a URI-friendly format and then back again for the search parameter, but it would give SEO-friendlier URLs.

Comment on "Faking" single-entry pages with ExpressionEngine, FieldFrame, and FF Matrix by Andy Marshall

2009-11-02T19:43:09Z

hmm - very interesting - will give that a go!

Comment on "Faking" single-entry pages with ExpressionEngine, FieldFrame, and FF Matrix by Cornelius Bergen

2009-11-02T19:36:49Z

I’ve done similar things with using the URL segments as parameter values in weblog tags. When I do I use:

{if no_results}
{redirect=“404”}
{/if}

Comment on "Faking" single-entry pages with ExpressionEngine, FieldFrame, and FF Matrix by Andy Marshall

2009-11-02T18:28:11Z

I’ve been working on something kinda similar today but with a thickbox being teh result of the clicked thumbnail.

That said, I have used the passing of values via the URL segments to be a very clever way of passing info into pages that then directly affect the content - often with weblog:entries search:{segment_4} for eg.

I do have the same problem tho where you forfeit the option for a 404 page, something that does make me a bit uneasy.

If someone does have a way of fixing this little problem, I would love to see it - I have often wondered about a include/exclude htaccess option where you can specify certain segments as safe…?