Contextual filter on a path alias I am trying to create a page view that will display content by Content:Title which is part of the node's URL.
I have 3 content-types: Movies, Books, and TV Shows.
Each content type has a path alias matching the [node:content-type:machine-name]/[node:title]/[current-date:custom:Ymd] pattern.
I successfully created a view called movies with a filter on Movies that displays all the nodes with www.example.com/movies/ in the URL. If I click on a node in the Movies view, it displays the content using the node.tpl.php template file.
I added a contextual filter (Content: Title) using Scott Edmonds suggestion.
Contextual Filter for: Content: Title ). When filter is not in URL -&gt; Provide Default Value -&gt; Raw Value from URL -&gt; Path Component=2. Use Path Alias=Checked. Then, When Filter Value is In URL: Specify Validation Criteria= &quot;PHP Code&quot; with the following PHP code: $handler-&gt;argument = str_replace(&quot;-&quot;,&quot; &quot;,$argument); return true; That did the trick. the PHP code converts the dashes to spaces so it can be evaluated correctly.
The result is that when I click on the &quot;Star Trek is Great&quot; post link I am taken to the correct URL, www.example.com/movies/star-trek-great/20130702,  but node.tpl.php is the template used instead of views-view--movies.tpl.php.
When I copy the title and paste it into the url, as &quot;www.example.com/movies/Star Trek is Great/20130712&quot; the views template page comes us.
Some where along the way I am missing something.  Any help out there?
FYI - I also have simply set the contextual filter on Content:Title with
Display all results for the specified field
Checked &quot;Override title&quot; and added %1 as the first argument
Seleced &quot;lowercase&quot; for the Case PATH
Selected &quot;transform spaces to dashes in url&quot;
But nothing worked :(
The issue is the following:

When you go to www.example.com/movies/star-trek-great/20130702 Drupal sees that this is a path alias to node/#, and it displays that node.  It won't use Views at all.

When you go to www.example.com/movies/Star Trek is Great/20130712, this does not map to any URL, but rather to the View sitting at www.example.com/movies with an contextual filter of Star Trek is Great (and 20130712 most probably).

You may have some other issues to work out as well:

Pathauto is taking out the is (and other small words by default) so there will be a bit of a hard time mapping star-trek-great to Star Trek is Great.  

Also, what happens if you have a title of Star Trek is Great!!! that maps to star-trek-great as well?