Custom route to alternative template

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Hi,

I’m trying to create a custom route that shows an alternative template to a page. The original page is at the url

/events/event-name

and at the custom route

/events/event-name/media

I want to show some fields from the page in a different layout. I got it to work, like this:

'routes' => [
    [
      'pattern' => 'events/(:any)/media',
      'action'  => function ($name) {
        return new Page([
          'slug' => $name,
          'template' => 'event-media',
          'content' => page('events/' . $name)->toArray()['content']
        ]);
      }
    ]
  ]

but I was wondering if this actually the best way to do it.

Thanks in advance,
Till

2

I think its a very valid solution. :slight_smile:

Two other methods could be:

  1. have a page model for the event, where you override the children method to return a media child.
    site/models/event.php
    <?php

 class EventPage extends Page {
     public function children() {
         return Pages::factory([
             'slug' => 'media',
             'template' => 'event-media'
             'content' => $this->content()
         ], $this);
     }
 }
  2. Have a content representation template.
    This however changes the route to /events/event-name.media. For this, just create a template with the name event.media.php.
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To prevent duplicate content, you might want to make the original URL the canonical one.

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Thanks a lot to the both of you!