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Using {if count == total_results}
In the EE docs, the description for the count conditional doesn’t clearly illustrate how useful this conditional can be. You have available
{if count == '1'}...{/if}
and
{if count == total_results}...{/if}
which means you can do things like deliver a design element (say, a divider) to all entries except for the last one, or wrap the whole list of what’s returned with some code.
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pablo — 06:37 on 06.01.2009
Good tip Christie
JonnyUK — 09:47 on 06.01.2009
Correction: The syntax for {total_entries} is incorrect AFAIK, this should actually be {total_results}.
Also worth providing an example - this can be very useful for creating lists such as the following:
{exp:weblog:entries}
{if “{count}” == “1”}<ul>{/if}
<li>{title}</li>
{if “{count}” == “{total_results}”}</ul>{/if}
{/exp:weblog:entries}
Otherwise if you place your <ul> tags outside of the entries tag, you could end up with a list with no list items which is not valid.
Christy Collins — 15:03 on 06.01.2009
You’re absolutely right JonnyUK! Since it’s not documented, I always have trouble remembering it myself. I have verified that I’ve used it without brackets and quotes and it works fine that way. I’ve edited my original post.
moogaloo — 10:51 on 10.03.2009
very interesting… i guess by using this you could drop a closing div in there with a opening div with display: none in it after say, 2 comments, so you only show the most recent 2.
You can then use a jquery / js “read more…” link to reveal the rest of them, similar to the way facebook only shows the most recent 2 comments to a status by default, but you can expand it to read the whole thread?
I was trying to do something like this but just couldn’t work out how to drop those div tags in there to cut the comment thread in half at a specific point.
genius!
Fabian Socarras — 15:59 on 10.07.2009
How would you go about wrapping a div tag around every three entries for a total of 12? At the moment I’m having to rely on multiple weblog entry tags, combined with the offset parameter.