Hi prince.gen,

yes, you can definitely do this.

I guess that the main criteria is for these articles, that ALL articles within the Sports category should use the new template.

So I would make a rule in MetaTemplate like this:

if ($content_genius->check("category_title = sports")) return true;

Then in the SUCCEED action, set the template to be used for these articles. In fact, the rule will catch not only the articles in the sports category, but also the category page itself. I guess that that's what you intend.

Hope that helps,
Stephen

Ok, that's a bit more complicated.

Can I ask, how are your URLs set up? Can you give an example of the URL for when an article is shown in the mobile site, and when the same article is shown in the main site?

I have a feeling that the URL might be the same in both cases... and that makes things complicated.

Cheers,
Stephen

The question is - can you give me the URLs of an example article beneath those URLs?

i.e. what URL do you get when you click on one of the articles listed in mydomain.com/mobile? Is it the same as the URL when you click on one of the articles in mydomain.com/sports?

Cheers,
Stephen

Mmm, that's a really hard one. As long as the URLs for the articles are exactly the same, I don't think there's any good solution basing the template purely on the menu.

Let's try to think about it a different way.

Ideas:

(1) Instead of making a separate menu in order to trigger the template, why not just detect whether someone is using a mobile device, and trigger the different template that way? This means that everyone sees the same menu (Sports), but when they are inside it, the template adjusts to their device?

(2) Alternatively, you could make some links on your page that toggle the template to the mobile template and back again.

e.g. make 2 links in your menu: one to "mysite.com/?mobile=1" and one to "mysite.com/?mobile=2". The first one will switch on the mobile template, and the second will switch back to the normal template.

To do (2), in MetaMod, make the following rules:

1:
if (JRequest::getVar("mobile") == 1) return true;
SUCCEED action: reset session variable "A"; continue to next rule
FAIL action: continue to next rule

2:
if (JRequest::getVar("mobile") == 2) return true;
SUCCEED action: set session variable "A"; continue to next rule
FAIL action: continue to next rule

3:
use the "detect session variable A" dropdown as the condition.
SUCCEED action: set the mobile template, remove the "mobile template" menu item
FAIL action: remove the "back to normal template" menu item.


Hope that helps,
Stephen