Question

I have a view set up to accept 2 arguments. The url is like this: playlists/video5/%/%/rss.xml
It works fine if I supply the url with 2 arguments like playlists/video5/front/coach/rss.xml.
I have 2 arguments of “Taxonomy: Term”

But I need it to run even if 1 or no arguments are supplied. It looks like you can do this with PHP Code under: Provide default argument options -> Default argument type: -> PHP Code.

I’m using this for the first one:

$arg[0] == 'all';
return 'all';

I’m using this for the second one:

$arg[1] == 'all';
return 'all';

It’s working fine in the preview if I enter 1, 2 or no arguments, but in the browser it giving me a “Page not found” error if I use less than 2 arguments in the url.

It woks with these urls:
/playlists/video5/gridiron/all/rss.xml
/playlists/video5/gridiron/football/rss.xml

It does not work with this:
playlists/video5/gridiron/rss.xml

I want it to return all values when no arguments are given, or if only one arg is given, just use the one, etc…

thanks

Answer 1

I would rearrange your URL to look like this: playlists/video5/rss/%/% so that way your arguments always come last. Then in your argument settings set:

Action to take if argument is not present: Display all values

This way when you go to playlists/video5/rss you will get every value. When you go to /playlists/video5/rss/term1 you will get all values that have term1 in them. Then the trick for the second argument is to include the wildcard for first argument like this: /playlists/video5/rss/all/term2. I believe that will include just the values that have the second term.

Alternatively, if these are both taxonomy terms, you may want to consolidate these into a single argument and check the box that says: Allow multiple terms per argument. According to the documentation right below the checkbox, it looks like this should allow you something like playlists/video5/rss/term1+term2 and display all values that have the first or second term.