create custom conditionals

[harmor19]

does anyone know how to make custom conditionals for templates?

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Please explain more what you want.

[harmor19]

I just want to know the procedure on how to make one for future reference.
Right now I don't really need it.

[Alan @ CIT]

I'm not entirely sure what your asking - what do you mean by "custom conditionals" ?

A template conditional is just:

<if condition="$something"> ...html... </if>

Which in english, translates to "If $something is equal to true, then echo this html".

In your PHP script / plugin / etc, you'd set:

PHP Code:

$something = true; 


if you wanted the template conditional to run.

(hopefully that makes sense)

[harmor19]

so I used this is the php script

PHP Code:

if($this == $that)
{
  $something = true;
} 


Then in the template I'd use

<if condition="$something"> ...html... </if>

Is that how it's done?

[Alan @ CIT]

Yep, that's exactly it.

[harmor19]

I thought I had to do with "iif"

Thanks for the help.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

'iif' was an extension to PHP that was used in vB3.0. It is now depreciated in favour of the regular php syntax.