Textpattern Support Forum

Yes, that appears to work! And, you taught a man to fish. I realized for my specific ‘localhosting’ need, the server IP address is probably easier, so changing your example to:

<txp:smd_if field="svrvar:SERVER_ADDR" operator="eq" value="127.0.0.1">
   <p>Yes, it is localhost</p>
<txp:else />
   <p>Nope, not localhost</p>
</txp:smd_if>

Thanks!

johnstephens wrote:

if I set the list delimiter to a comma by declaring list_delim="," and use a comma to separate the values, it doesn’t work any more.

Ah, yes, a subtle annoyance. Because the plugin is already splitting the value by param_delim it gets there first and by the time it comes to splitting by list_delim there’s no commas left to operate on. You need the extra delim so you can check multiple values against multiple in-lists, e.g. value="1/2/3, 4/5/6"

Short answer: set param_delim to something other than a comma and your smd_if will parse correctly.

Hey Gang

I have a slight problem here
This code works:

<!-- Grabs News about the Author -->
<txp:variable name="the_author"><txp:custom_field name="author_1" /></txp:variable>
<txp:article_custom wraptag="dl" section="News" limit="500" >
<txp:smd_if field="body" operator="contains"   value='<txp:variable name="the_author" />' >
      <p><txp:posted format="%B %Y" /> : <txp:permlink><txp:title/></txp:permlink></p>
</txp:smd_if>
   </txp:article_custom>

(It searches for Body field of the News section for any instances of my book author’s name which sits in custom field “author_1”)
Proof here: http://www.talonbooks.com/authors/stephen-collis

So now I want to do the same for book titles

<!-- Grabs News about the Book -->
<txp:variable name="the_title"><txp:title /></txp:variable>
<txp:article_custom wraptag="dl" section="News" limit="500" >
<txp:smd_if field="body" operator="contains" value='<txp:variable name="the_title" />' >
      <p><txp:posted format="%B %Y" /> : <txp:permlink><txp:title/></txp:permlink></p>
</txp:smd_if>
   </txp:article_custom>

This <!— Grabs News about the Book —> code works ONLY for ONE word titles. “foo” works but not “foo foo” but in the above <!— Grabs News about the Author —> example it works for “foo” and “foo foo” and even “foo foo foo”.

can anyone explain the different results?
Is txp:title different from a txp:custom_field in some fundamental way that would cause this?

I am (as always) a little stumped.
The same result may be able to be reached by smd_each but since I haven’t used it before I am unsure.

Any help would be appreciated.
regards
Les

Last edited by lazlo (2011-04-10 01:44:12)

Sweet that works… :0 almost wonderfully.

Of course nothing is perfect so I need help with this:

In book titles with apostrophes like “Bash’d” or “foo’d” I get this syntax error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/talon/textpattern/lib/txplib_misc.php(638) : eval()‘d code(296) : eval()‘d code on line 1
Tag error: <txp:smd_if field=“body” operator=“contains” value=’<txp:variable name=“the_title” />’ > -> Notice: Array to string conversion on line 307
textpattern/lib/txplib_misc.php(638) : eval()‘d code:307 join()
textpattern/publish.php:1169 smd_if()
textpattern/publish.php:1104 processTags()
textpattern/publish.php:838 parse()
textpattern/publish.php:955 doArticles()
textpattern/publish.php:945 parseArticles()
textpattern/publish.php:1169 article_custom()
textpattern/publish.php:1104 processTags()
textpattern/publish/taghandlers.php:3219 parse()
textpattern/publish.php:1169 if_individual_article()

My new code:

<txp:if_individual_article>
<txp:variable name=“the_title”><txp:php>echo $thisarticle[‘title’];</txp:php></txp:variable>
<txp:article_custom wraptag=“dl” section=“News” limit=“500” >
<txp:smd_if field=“body” operator=“contains” value=’<txp:variable name=“the_title” />’ > <p><txp:posted format=”%B %Y” /> : <txp:permlink><txp:title/></txp:permlink></p>
</txp:smd_if> </txp:article_custom>
</txp:if_individual_article>

Any advice on escaping the apostrophes in the php call or is this more of a bug in the smd_if code?
Or scolding saying I used it wrong.

regards
Les

Last edited by lazlo (2011-04-10 03:44:27)

pafruu wrote:

What I am trying to achieve is <snip>

If all you’re trying to do is figure out which of the values in the ‘rank’ are set then you may not need smd_if. Proceed as follows:

1. Keep your HTML form as you have it now
2. At the top of the destination page add <txp:adi_gps post="1" /> (since you’re using method=“post”)
3. That will automagically create you a <txp:variable> named “rank”
4. Use a series of <txp:if_variable> tags to check its contents and take appropriate action

Another approach for step 4 might be to simply use smd_if to verify that the returned result is “in” a valid list of sort orders and if it is (i.e. in the smd_if container) plug the value into the sort="" value in the <txp:article_custom> tag. Check out smd_if’s {replacement} variable examples for how to do this. That way you only have one thing to check and one article_custom tag to maintain.

See how you get on with that.

Last edited by Bloke (2011-10-07 16:48:58)