Conditional Templates Hack

Hi,

maybe you know that problem, just checking if $foo isset, if not dont display option $bar.

this is kinda nasty cuz you gotta edit the .php file and the template.

i've thought about conditional templates and wrote that extremly short hack:

./admin/functions.php

before

PHP Code:

if ($gethtmlcomments and $addtemplatename) { 

paste this

PHP Code:

$template=str_replace('?','"',$template); 

this will replace every ?-char with " but it will NOT escape this quote char!

from now on you can use the iif() function:

Template:

... this user has ? . iif($userposts == 1, ?one post?, ?$userpost posts?) . ? since ...

actually it will look like this after beeing parsed:

... this user has " . iif($userposts > 0, "not a single post", "$userpost posts") . " since ...

well thats not easy to explain, i hope you got then point

note this isnt tested very well, use with care!

[mwagstaff]

Awesome! This is just what I've been looking for for a long time. Fantastic work! From my quick-and-dirty testing, this appears to be the answer to my conditional templates dreams...

[Dean C]

what is the point of this :S?

[mwagstaff]

It allows you to include conditional statements in your templates. For example, on my site which is PDA-oriented, I want to display a different layout if a visitor is using a PDA browser (e.g. Pocket Internet Explorer), which obviously has a lot less screen space to play with.

Therefore, I would include a conditional check to see whether a PDA browser is detected or not before deciding which elements of the template to display, and what the layout should be.

[Dark_Wizard]

Conditional templates will be a feature of vb3....

[Boofo]

I still don't get it. Any examples of this in use?

Originally posted by mwagstaff
It allows you to include conditional statements in your templates. For example, on my site which is PDA-oriented, I want to display a different layout if a visitor is using a PDA browser (e.g. Pocket Internet Explorer), which obviously has a lot less screen space to play with.

Therefore, I would include a conditional check to see whether a PDA browser is detected or not before deciding which elements of the template to display, and what the layout should be.

[mwagstaff]

I'm still checking, but it appears that the conditional check doesn't work correctly in the postbit templates - the result always comes up as false.

[mwagstaff]

Anyone know what's so special about the postbit templates that they set all variables to null?

For example, if I set a variable $mobile to 1, it will be recognised as such in the showthread template. In the postbit template, however, it always comes up as null (even if I include a php file in the postbit template that specifically sets it to 1).

[Entourage]

Originally posted by mwagstaff
Anyone know what's so special about the postbit templates that they set all variables to null?

For example, if I set a variable $mobile to 1, it will be recognised as such in the showthread template. In the postbit template, however, it always comes up as null (even if I include a php file in the postbit template that specifically sets it to 1).

Yes the variables are shipped to another php file (postbit is parsed in /admin/functions.php)

[Xenon]

it's because getpostbit is a real function, so it doesn't use variables from showthread.php
you have to globalize your variable first