How To Use Template Conditionals in Widgets

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Originally Posted by clubvr4

Any ideas or guides on how to achieve this? Ive been fiddling for a while now, cant get it to work.

1.) Make a new template, name it something like "vbcms_widget_execphp_custom".

2.) Put your code inside it including conditionals just like you normally would in a template - if you want it to appear like other widgets you'll have to add the box code:

<div class="cms_widget">
  <div class="block">
    <div class="cms_widget_header">
      <h3>TITLE HERE</h3>
    </div>
    <div class="cms_widget_content" style="padding: 10px 0px 10px 0px;">
      <!-- YOUR CODE START -->
             YOUR CODE GOES IN HERE!!!!
      <!-- YOUR CODE END-->
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

3.) Now, add a new widget, choose php direct execution and give it whatever title you want and save it.

4.) Now click on "configure" for your new widget in the widgets menu. Delete any text in the main code field and change the template name to "vbcms_widget_execphp_custom".

5.) Add it to your layout and it should work now!

Advanced Note: For some reason I can't explain, you don't seem to need to preRegister the template you create while you're doing this which makes life easier. If anyone can tell me why that is I would be really interested to know! This isn't normally the case when you add templates.