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Is it possible to use Conditions (if, else etc...) in the templates?

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    buzi Reply #1, 20 years, 4 months ago
    Hello again!
    I’m starting to really like this cms!!

    Can I use conditions in the templates?
    I want to use them for several cases, but the most current one of them is for the html title of the page.
    I want the title of the page to be in the next format:
    If I’m in a page with no children or on a parent page, I want the title to be "Pagename".
    But if I’m in a child page, I want the title to be "ParentPageName | ChildPageName".

    So I thought about checking if the page has parents ([*parent*] > 0) and then act according to the results.
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      Garry Nutting Reply #2, 20 years, 4 months ago
      Hi buzi,

      You won’t be able to use that kind of logic in a template, however you could write a short snippet to get the same results.

      For the example you gave above, this should work (just call the snippet within the <title> tag):

      if ($modx->documentObject['parent'] > 0) {
	$parent = $modx->getParent();
	$output = $parent['pagetitle'] . ' | ' . $modx->documentObject['pagetitle'];
} else {
	$output = $modx->documentObject['pagetitle'];
}

return $output;


      Hope that helps,

      Garry
        Garry Nutting
        Senior Developer
        MODX, LLC

        Email: [email protected]
        Twitter: @garryn
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        buzi Reply #3, 20 years, 4 months ago
        Wow great! It’s working fabulous!

        But now I have a completely diffrent question:
        How do I get the site URL inside a snippet ?
        The DropMenu is giving me a relative path to the children pages, and I’m using friendly URLs, so if I’m inside a child page, and I click on it again or one of it’s "friends", I get a 404 page.
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          opengeek Reply #4, 20 years, 4 months ago
          Quote from: buzi at Jun 08, 2006, 05:01 AM

          But now I have a completely diffrent question:
          How do I get the site URL inside a snippet ?
          The DropMenu is giving me a relative path to the children pages, and I’m using friendly URLs, so if I’m inside a child page, and I click on it again or one of it’s "friends", I get a 404 page.

          Search for the following terms in the main search page for the forums -- friendly alias path base href

          There are many posts about using friendly alias paths and a single template; here’s one of the search results that may help you out...

          http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,4014.0.html

          Cheers
            Jason Coward
            Chief Architect @ MODX
            http://www.jasoncoward.com | http://twitter.com/drumshaman | https://github.com/opengeek
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            Thor Reply #5, 14 years, 11 months ago
            You can use PHx for this inside templates and chunks.http://modx.com/extras/package/phx" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> http://modx.com/extras/package/phx It can really help you on small things like making if-statements inside a template/chunk and create small snippets to modify template-variables directly. You really should learn how to use PHx smiley
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              woundedbeer Reply #6, 14 years, 10 months ago
              If you are using Revolution, you don't use phx, but input/output modifiers available in the core.

              See:

              http://rtfm.modx.com/display/revolution20/Input+and+Output+Filters+%28Output+Modifiers%29