Ozh

Maybe this will help ? Taken from my actual index.php :

Original :
<? if ($posts) { foreach ($posts as $post) { start_wp(); ?>

My modification :
<? switch ($_GET["a"]) :
case "download" :
case "about" :
case "custom" :
case "links" :
case "stats" :
case "404" :
case "archives" :
$page = $_GET["a"] . ".php";
include $page;
break;
default :
echo "<!-- news -->";
?>
<? if ($posts) { foreach ($posts as $post) { start_wp(); ?>

And below everything related to printing posts, added :
<? endswitch; ?>

This way, I just edit or create pages such as “about.php” with no layout designing, they are integrated in my index.php instead of all the news items. So myblog.com/index.php prints the posts, myblog.com/index.php?a=about print the content of about.php within all your menus, headers and stuff.

I am teh leet
Ozh 13:37

Something like this might do :
Where you have code like this :
"> <? the_title(); ?>
Enclose it in a test on $single like this :
<? if (!$single) { ?>
"> <? the_title(); ?>
<? } ?>
$single is set to 1 if you’re displaying only one item (i.e. you are on the permalink page)

Yeah I was going to tell the same thing about rewrite rules.
If you plan to use this trick often, you could set up a general rule like :

RewriteRule ^information/([_0-9a-z-]+)/?$ /information_$1.php [QSA]
RewriteRule ^information/([_0-9a-z-]+)/([_0-9a-z-]+)/?$ /information_$1_$2.php [QSA]
RewriteRule ^information/([_0-9a-z-]+)/([_0-9a-z-]+)/([_0-9a-z-]+)/?$ /information_$1_$2_$3.php [QSA]
RewriteRule ^information/([_0-9a-z-]+)/([_0-9a-z-]+)/([_0-9a-z-]+)/([_0-9a-z-]+)/?$ /information_$1_$2_$3_$4.php [QSA]

So that any file located in /information could be accessed via “fake folders” :
/information/hello/ would redirect to /information_hello.php
/information/so/cool/ would redirect to /information_so_cool.php
/information/I/am/l33t/ would redirect to /information_I_am_l33t.php
and so on …

(not sure you could handle any length of fake URL with a single rewrite rule instead of creating one for each as I did)

(watch out, this is the creator of BLOG:CMS trying to waste our community support time)

Heh, I’ve just mentionned Dotclear’s templates 2 days ago 🙂
They are indeed pretty and clean.