parentlist array Conditional styling

[jim doodle]

Hi there, i have a tabulated css layout that needs a class assigning it as selected, I want to define this selected class by the parentID, or of the parentList contains X

<if condition="$foruminfo[parentlist] == X">class="selected"</if>

However since this checks for a match rather than a contains i am stuck as i am not sure how to check with an array i did have something liek this but to no avail.

<if condition="in_array('X', array($parentlist))">class="selected"</if>

update this code nearly works, but only seems to read the first integer in the array?!? Any help ?

<if condition="in_array(14,array($foruminfo[parentlist]))">

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To answer my own question, $parentlist is a string not an array, so i need to explode this in to an array. However i can't do this inline as explode is not a valid php function for vb, instead i setup plugin.

plug-in > Hook Location:parse_templates

$parentarray= explode(',', $foruminfo[parentlist]);

Then i can perform the array conditional inline using this new global variable

<if condition="in_array(14, $parentarray)">class="selected"</if>

This doesn't actually evaluate in the template, but continue anyway, and all is well.

TA DA! Well i'm impressed anyway!:)