If TV empty? (phx)

Hello,

how can I ask if a TV is empty or not?
My try:

did not work. It seems like that `` will not be interprated as an empty var (nullstring)
But how can I do this?

try this
[*news_file:isnot=``:then=`{{tpl_news_file}}`*]

No it did not work.

ok this wil work

[*news_file:len:gt=`0`:then=`{{tpl_news_file}}`*]

Greets Dimmy

No it’s the same. It did’nt work.
But what about the syntax? Were’s the "if...." in your example?

I used this call lots of times and it works great

it says if the length of the value from the placeholder is greater then 0 then display the chunk, I use this one to show or leave out the introtext markup like this: (maybe the else statement must be used for it to work).

[*introtext:len:gt=`0`:then=`{{display_introtext}}`:else=``*]

and this works fine, so if this does not somhow work 4 you than maybe somthing else is wrong, like did you check if the value of news_file is really empty no spaces or default value.

Dimmy

Personnally I avoid this issue by defining a default value to my TVs (for example "blank" and then testing empty is quite easy )

OK I cheat it’s a lazy solution but it works

You might want to try [tt][*news_file:ifempty=`{{isEmpty}}`:else=`{{isNotEmpty`*][/tt]
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As dragonlord, I want to test if a TV is empty or not.
I tried yours differents answer without succes.
I work with MODx 0.9.6 and PHx 2.1.2

I have a TV name [*contact*]
I tried theses codes :

Result : everywhere the string "empty" appears, whereas somes TV docs are not empty !


Result : once again, the string "empty" appears everywhere, whereas somes TV docs are not empty...


Result : ditto....

I tried this code too :

I have few docs which have "Mr John" on the TV [*contact*]
Unfortunately, the result is "no contact" everywhere

What’s wrong !!!!

Are you sure you checked the System events? Sounds like there could be a problem.