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Careful when combining conditionals and backspace=“x”
- Posted by Brent Cartier
- June 23, 2009
- 2 people have found this tip helpful.
I’ve run into this ‘gotcha’ a few times and have seen it frequently on the forums.
When using conditionals inside a weblog:entries loop, be careful that the backspace feature doesn’t clip the closing tag of your conditional. In this example you’ll end up with a broken or blank page depending where it occurs in the template:
{exp:weblog:entries weblog="products" backspace="1"}
{if lang == "fr"}
{title_fr},
{if:else}
{title},
{/if}
{/exp:weblog:entries}
EE will trim the closing curly brace of
{/if}
which of course breaks things. Make sure to arrange the comma (in this case) after the conditional like so:
{exp:weblog:entries weblog="products" backspace="1"}
{if lang == "fr"}
{title_fr}
{if:else}
{title}
{/if}
,
{/exp:weblog:entries}
Hope that prevents some heads banging against walls…
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