Answered getPage: Property &totalVar and Output filter

Thanks again. Glad I have back getPage, but my original question remains open:

There's a &where property too in my call, working well. In case there are no items matching the criteria,
the output of [[+itemsTotal]] is empty, not 0.
Type casting did not help, and Output filters are not working.
What else could I try?

this is strange, because I get 0, if there are no results.
Can you test, what you get with that, what I posted earlier?

Tried it: The output is empty, not 0.

there must be something else wrong, because

xPDO::getCount(), which is used internally, does allways return an integer, not an empty string.

you can try to change the &totalVar to something different

you can try, if you get something with:



(perhaps the value is 0, but gets removed somehow)

I tried various snippets similar to yours in Reply #2, to no avail.
For $modx->getPlaceholder($placeholder) I always get an empty string.
It seems that the &totalVar property is not handled like other properties.

Tried this:

[[+itemsTotal:is=`0`:then=`null`:else=`[[+itemsTotal]]`]]

The output is, in any case, the same as for

i'm having this same problem every time there are no elements for the totalVar to count it doesn't output anything and none of the solutions that were put forth have worked