using offset with nice urls

Tuesday 26 August 2003 2:24:48 am

Hi there,
My site is almost there now but there are a few questions remaining.
I have it set up to use nice urls which works fine, and in the news section I am trying to paginate with 5 stories per page. When not using nice urls, I can just stick an "/offset/5" etc on to the end of the url and all will work fine, providing I reference this in my fetch statement.

However, when I try this on a nice url, the site just takes me back to the fromt page. I'm sure this must be possible, I don't want to have to revert to 'ugly' urls when viewing subsequent pages (although I noticed this happens on the EZ forums :-)) I saw someone else asked this question, but there were no replies. Hopefully this isn't just impossible.

Any ideas?

Thanks for your help,

Ben Pirt

Tuesday 26 August 2003 6:50:00 am

I see,
couldn't you use strip the offset before looking up the match in the DB, then make the offset variable available in the template? Or does that just not fit in to the structure you have (I haven't hacked around with EZs php yet)
Cheers,
Ben

Tuesday 26 August 2003 7:10:23 am

I think I would even prefer the

/my/nice/url/?offset=10

approach because it still makes sense regarding which section the user is in. So if they were in the news section at least
/news/?offset=10

would make more sense than
/content/view/full/xx/offset/10

because 'content/view/full' doesn't really relate to the section you are viewing other than in a behind the scenes kind of way, which is what we're trying to avoid.

All the best,
Ben