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Jul 25, 2005, 2:40 AM

aquaman

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Jul 25, 2005, 2:40 AM

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If, Else and Endif

Hi...

Please could someone have a quick look at these "if" statements and let me know what I am doing wrong.

what is happening is that if Type = Link the Add_Date field still shows up if it has a value.

Example:

<%if Type = 'Article'%>
<p><%if Add_Date%><i>Published: <%Add_Date%></i><br><%endif%>
</p>
<%endif%>

Example 2:

And here, Type is set to "Link" but the "ArticleDescription" is showing and not the "Description"

<%if Type = 'Article'%>
<%if ArticleDescription%><div class="description"><%ArticleDescription%></div><%else%>
<%if Description%><p class="description"><%Description%></p><%endif%>
<%endif%>

Many Thanks!

Jul 25, 2005, 3:06 AM

Andy

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Jul 25, 2005, 3:06 AM

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Re: [aquaman] If, Else and Endif In reply to

Hi,

You need to use this kind of formatting;

Number;

<%if field > 5%>
<%if field >= 5%>
<%if field <= 5%>
<%if field == 5%>
..etc

For normal text/char fields;

<%if field eq "something"%>
<%if field contains "something"%>
<%if field ne "something"%>
..etc

To answer your question though, this should work;

Code:
<%if Type = 'Article'%> 
   <p> 
     <%if Add_Date%><i>Published: <%Add_Date%></i><br /> <%endif%> 
  </p> 
<%endif%> 

<%if Type eq 'Article'%> 
  <%if ArticleDescription%> 
    <div class="description"><%ArticleDescription%></div> 
  <%elsif Description%> 
    <p class="description"><%Description%></p> 
  <%endif%> 
<%endif%>

Hope that helps :)

Cheers

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

Jul 29, 2005, 2:49 AM

aquaman

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Jul 29, 2005, 2:49 AM

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Re: [Andy] If, Else and Endif In reply to

Thanks Andy,

I am not sure why this is happening but I have the Type set to 'Link' and it still shows the fields if they have values.

E.g. Published: <%Add_Date%> still gets output to the page

Any suggestions?

Many Thanks

Jul 29, 2005, 10:59 AM

aquaman

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Jul 29, 2005, 10:59 AM

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Re: [aquaman] If, Else and Endif In reply to

FIXED!! I found out what I was doing wrong

I was testing with this

<%if Type = 'Article'%>
Type is <%Type%>
<%else%>
Its working
<%endif%>

and changed the "=" to "eq" so its now

<%if Type eq 'Article'%>
Type is <%Type%>
<%else%>
Its working
<%endif%>

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aquaman: Jul 29, 2005, 11:07 AM

Jul 30, 2005, 1:53 AM

Andy

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Jul 30, 2005, 1:53 AM

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Re: [aquaman] If, Else and Endif In reply to

Ah, whoops.

I did have it as <%if Type eq 'Article'%> on the second condition .. but I guess I didn't update the other one for you Crazy

Glad its working though :)

Cheers

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk