Support/Comments for ChunkIf

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Brief Description:
ChunkIf allows you to choose which of two chunks gets output, based on a template variable being set or not.

Looks good. Like a modern version of the very old snippet TV Conditional which I think does a similar task. Cool

Yes, there are various ways to do this kind of thing in MODx but it’s something that always seems to cause confusion and questions, especially when working with developers new to MODx. I needed something that was simple, easy to explain, reliable and easy for developers and for clients to use when editing pages.
ChunkIf allows you to place simple decisions into your templates whether to display something or not, based on a template variable being set. This means that templates can easily adapt to whatever information has been entered in the manager by end users.
There are instructions on the repository page, and also on my blog.
I’m going to post some more real world examples on the blog soon and I’ll post here when I do.

Thanks...this may be handy for me some time.

Would there be a way to modify it to expand the choice to choose from more than 2 chunks? Or we would be treading on PHx territory then? Thanks anyways...

cheers/k

Not really - it’s just making a choice between a variable being set or not, so that only gives you two options. It was only intended to be a very simple quick way to choose between outputting one chunk or another - I think you’re talking about something more complex.

But hey - you’ve got the code now, you can do what you like with it!

thank you for the snippet
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Quote from: dflock at Jan 06, 2009, 05:49 PM

Not really - it’s just making a choice between a variable being set or not, so that only gives you two options. It was only intended to be a very simple quick way to choose between outputting one chunk or another - I think you’re talking about something more complex.

But hey - you’ve got the code now, you can do what you like with it!

Thanks for the reply...and the code!

cheers/k

I ran across a modified version of this snippet called chunkIfExt or something like that, but now I can’t find it anywhere. Does anyone know where it is? It was handy because you could enter a list of TVs and a corresponding list of chunks to include for each.