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#1 2010-05-17 17:32:32

river

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Registered: 2010-05-17

Posts: 2

If No Future Articles, Do This

Hello!

I’m attempting to do something I thought would be quite popular and easy to find a how-to for on the forums, but all my searching has turned up nothing.

I want to list future articles from a specific section and if there are no more future articles, to display some text.

What I thought might work is this:

<txp:if_article_list>
      <txp:article_custom sort="Posted asc" time="future" section="events" form="events" limit="5" />
<txp:else />
      There are no upcoming events.
</txp:if_article_list>

However, that does not work. I’ve also looked through every post on the smd_if thread but didn’t see anyone that was attempting to do what I’m doing. Is there a simple way to go about this that I’m missing out on?

Thanks!

#2 2010-05-17 17:41:39

maniqui

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Registered: 2004-10-10

Posts: 3,070

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Re: If No Future Articles, Do This

The code above is not semantically correct, as it just means:

<txp:if_article_list>
     <!-- if we are in an article list, like a section or category frontpage -->
      <txp:article_custom sort="Posted asc" time="future" section="events" form="events" limit="5" />
<txp:else />
    <!-- we are not in article list, we are in individual article context, that is, in article's permanent link -->
      There are no upcoming events.
</txp:if_article_list>

You could try this:

<txp:variable name="has_future_articles" value='<txp:article_custom sort="Posted asc" time="future" section="events" form="events" limit="5" />' />
<txp:if_variable name="has_future_articles" value="">
      There are no upcoming events.
<txp:else />
      <txp:article_custom sort="Posted asc" time="future" section="events" form="events" limit="5" />
</txp:if_variable>

Notice the single quotes when using txp tags inside txp tags (on txp:variable value attribute).

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#3 2010-05-17 17:43:41

river

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Registered: 2010-05-17

Posts: 2

Re: If No Future Articles, Do This

Oh man, that totally worked!

Thanks so much!