If else match not working with &

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pohkit Reply #1, 8 years, 3 months ago

Hello guys,

I'm trying to match between both of these getParentId & [[+id]] on my chunk.
I have output of echo only just [[getParentId]] & [[+id]] , but not sure why when I apply if/else condition inside.
my chunk doesn't have any output message already.

Method 1:

[[If?
       &subject=`[[getParentId]]`
       &operator=`EQ`
       &operand=`[[+id]]`
       &then=`Its active`
       &else=`Its not active`
    ]]

Method 2:

[[[[getParentId]]:is=[[+id]]:then=`its active`:else=`its not active`]]

I'd try both method but seems like the code not working...may I know what did i do wrong?

This question has been answered by treigh. See the first response.

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treigh Reply #2, 8 years, 3 months ago

What do you get when you replace your chunk with [[getParentId]]? If you get nothing, try calling it uncached: [[!getParentId]].

If the uncached call returns a value, then this should work:

[[!If?
   &subject=`[[!getParentId]]`
   &operator=`eq`
   &operand=`[[+id]]`
   &then=`It's active`
   &else=`It's not active`
]]

Your second call isn't valid. Try this:

[[getParentId:is=`[[+id]]`:then=`its active`:else=`its not active`]]
// Call it uncached if need be

The mosquito trick won't do it here since there are no element tags in your conditionals. The syntax is also wrong. Typically it works like this:

[[[[getParenId:is=`[[+id]]`:then=`myElement?...`:else=`myOtherElement? ...`]]]]

[ed. note: treigh last edited this post 8 years, 3 months ago.]

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BobRay Reply #3, 8 years, 3 months ago

Can you explain exactly what you're trying to do?

It looks like you're comparing the ID of the resource being retrieved with the ID of its parent. Those will never match, since a resource is never going to be its own parent. Maybe I'm missing something.

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pohkit Reply #4, 8 years, 3 months ago

Quote from: BobRay at Dec 29, 2015, 10:03 PM

Can you explain exactly what you're trying to do?

It looks like you're comparing the ID of the resource being retrieved with the ID of its parent. Those will never match, since a resource is never going to be its own parent. Maybe I'm missing something.

I'm actually want to match the resource id, if matched , then will output a 'active' class and applied on the li tag.

Answered If else match not working with &