problem with IF snippet

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trymedo Reply #1, 15 years, 9 months ago

I’m having trouble with the ’If’ Snippet, I can’t get it to output my chunks. The chunks work and so does the IF call, but when I use them together, I get nothing (No output for &then, or &else)

My call is:

  [[!If?
    &subject=`[[!sortbyGET]]`
    &operator=`NEQ`
    &operand=`starrating`
    &then=`[[!$getResourcesByCategory]]`
    &else=`[[!$getResourcesByRating]]`
  ]]

If I use the call below, it outputs the text I expect and the conditional works fine.

  [[!If?
    &subject=`[[!sortbyGET]]`
    &operator=`NEQ`
    &operand=`starrating`
    &then=`Sort by menuindex or publishedon`
    &else=`sort by star rating`
  ]]

Also, if I call either of my chunks they output the text I need too.

[[!$getResourcesByCategory]]

[[!$getResourcesByRating]]

is there something else I need to get my chunks to be called from the If conditional?

Tom Dyer

Designer/Animator/Web Developer - England, UK.
http://www.bespokepixels.co.uk

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banbbc Reply #2, 15 years, 9 months ago

There is a very similar post below:

http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,53241.msg308418.html#msg308418

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trymedo Reply #3, 15 years, 9 months ago

Thanks, I’ve gotten around it by writing my own snippet to do what I was trying to do with the If snippet:

$output = $modx->parseChunk("getResourcesByCategory");

if(isset($_GET['s']) && !empty($_GET['s']))
{
  $sortby = $_GET['s'];
  
  if($sortby == "rating")
  {
    $output = $modx->parseChunk("getResourcesByRating");
  }
}

return $output;

That does the job nicely grin

Tom Dyer

Designer/Animator/Web Developer - England, UK.
http://www.bespokepixels.co.uk

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trymedo Reply #4, 15 years ago

Did you try calling your chunks cached, rather than uncached? I can't remember why but I've had issues in the past, calling uncached tags inside uncached tags.. if that makes sense. Try alternating between cached and uncached tags when nesting them...

[[!If?
  &subject=`[[!sortbyGET]]`
  &operator=`NEQ`
  &operand=`starrating`
  &then=`[[!$getResourcesByCategory]]`
  &else=`[[!$getResourcesByRating]]`
]]

Tom Dyer

Designer/Animator/Web Developer - England, UK.
http://www.bespokepixels.co.uk