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DHTML Lemmingsâ„¢

That’s right: the great old favourite, Lemmingsâ„¢, implemented in DHTML. Luckily you can turn the music off.

“Oh No!”

[Kaboom]

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It would be nice to be able to have a links and/or archive page under blogsome: that just had a list of all links, or a list of all posts/months/days (whatever).

The problem is that Pages cannot use template tags, and it is not much fun to update these pages by hand.

A solution presented itself to me today, and it goes like this:

 {if $smarty.server.REQUEST_URI == '/links/'}
    {get_links_list}
{elseif $smarty.server.REQUEST_URI == '/archives/'}
    {get_archives type='postbypost' limit='' format='html'}
{/if}

This code can go into the Main Page template, just after {content}, or into the post.html template if you’ve used my previous hack to get Pages processed by the post template.

You’ll also need to create Pages: Links and Archives (if you use different names, be sure to ensure the page-slug is the one that is listed in the code above). I had to put a <br /> into each Page in order to get rid of all errors.

You can see the results here: Archives, Links.

It’s more than likely that a similar solution exists for categories: I’ll do that too.

Update: Categories, Pages.

Note: Make sure you have the slash following the URL when you try to access them. It may be possible to have a double {if} clause (with slash and without), but I’m not sure yet… [later] works a treat:

 {if $smarty.server.REQUEST_URI == '/links/' || $smarty.server.REQUEST_URI == '/links'}
    {get_links_list}

And so on…

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