Switching Templates in getResources?

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john_nye Reply #1, 15 years, 1 month ago

So, on the site I have two types of post a link list item and an article item. For the front page of the site I need to use 2 different templates for the getResources call, one for the linked list and one for articles.

Articles have a unique templateVariable. At the moment I am using the If snippet to check for the templateVariable in the articles page.

The big problem I have is that all templateVariables have to be called in the chunk before the IF snippet, this adds a lot of extra junk onto the page.

Does anyone have a better way of doing this so I don't have to call all these TVs before?

If you're not to sure, the URL is johnnye.net and check the source.

The snippet I need improving is:

<!--[[+pagetitle]][[+id]][[+content]][[+publishedon:strtotime:date=`%a, %d %B %Y`]][[+tv.articleStyle]][[+tv.linkURL]]-->
[[!If? &subject=`[[+tv.articleStyle]]` 
&operator=`notempty` 
&then=`<div class="clear"></div><hr><a href="[[~[[+id]]]]"><h1>[[+pagetitle]]</h1></a>
<p class="date">Published on: [[+publishedon:strtotime:date=`%a, %d %B %Y`]]</p>
<div class="[[+tv.articleStyle]]">
  [[+content]]
</div><hr>` 
&else=`
<div class="link-item">
  <a href="[[+tv.linkURL]]"><h2>[[+pagetitle]]</h2></a>
  [[+content]]
</div>`
]]

http://johnnye.net

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Lucas Reply #2, 15 years, 1 month ago

Does this work:

[[+tv.articleStyle:notempty=`
    <div class="clear"></div><hr><a href="[[~[[+id]]]]"><h1>[[+pagetitle]]</h1></a>
    <p class="date">Published on: [[+publishedon:strtotime:date=`%a, %d %B %Y`]]</p>
    <div class="[[+tv.articleStyle]]">
      [[+content]]
    </div><hr>
`:else=`
    <div class="link-item">
      <a href="[[+tv.linkURL]]"><h2>[[+pagetitle]]</h2></a>
      [[+content]] 
    </div>
`]]

However a custom snippet would be a lot more efficient here wink

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john_nye Reply #3, 15 years, 1 month ago

Hi Lucas,
Thanks for that, yeah it works for of, for me the `:else=` is throwing errors so I replaced it with a conditional on the linkURL template variable.

Interestingly though, by using the template variable conditional the page load time increases from 0.03 (by using If snippet) seconds to 0.3 seconds(after a page reload to account for caching). This is a similar time if I only have one conditional notempty in the chunk and no else.

Yes, I should bit the bullet and bash out a custom snippet, as hopefully that will be as quick as the if chunk and much tidier.

Once again thank for the help.

-john

http://johnnye.net