{section} How to end section loop early....
 

Hi all,

I have a section that is looping through 1000's of records. When I find what I want, how do I exit the loop. ???

Any ideas ? As I cacnot seem to find anything on this.

Example:

Array is $test

{section name=test loop=$test}
{if $test[test] eq $my_parm}
then I want to exit the loop ! How ?
{/if}
{/section}

Any info would be great.

Array is $test


That code will only print the row in the loop that matches your $my_param.

not sure if thats what your looking for.

the loop would be made up from a php file / mysql statement and the {if} statement will pick out the row you want.

If you wanted to minimise the amount of rows in the array you would need to alter the sql statement

Issues with {section} processing time...
 

Hi,

Basically that is what I am doing.

I just want to exit the loop once I have what I want as to minimize processing time.

The way I have coded it. It works, but it is slow on large databases, just want to work out of a way of dropping out of the section once the if condition is met.

Any ideas...

I would suggest filtering at the PHP level, either by the WHERE clause in you DB query (preferably), or by using foreach and if/then loops in PHP.

Processing time will be MUCH shorter.