if no. of subcategories greater than X, do this

donavichi · #1 02-10-2008, 01:10 AM

Hi,

What I'm trying to do is create an edit that tells x-cart to show 'content A' if there's less than 3 subcategories within a category and 'content B' if there are more than 3...

i realise it's an if statement of some-sort but can't seem to get the syntac right to make x-cart understand what I need it to do.

Any ideas greatly appreciated

ARW VISIONS · #2 02-10-2008, 08:42 AM

Where is the content to be displayed?

donavichi · #3 02-10-2008, 10:00 AM

it's to be used on subcategories.tpl

ARW VISIONS · #4 02-10-2008, 11:08 AM

{if $categories and $subcategories <= 3}
content
{else}
content
{/if}

will that work?

Jon · #5 02-10-2008, 11:13 AM

Off hand without looking at the code, I believe it would be:

Code:

{if $subcategories|@count gt 3}
There's more than three.
{else}
There's less than three.
{/if}

donavichi · #6 02-10-2008, 12:35 PM

Thanks Ashley but that didn't do it - Jon's version did though. Thank you both.

ARW VISIONS · #7 02-10-2008, 02:01 PM

Can someone explain the difference please? thx

kube · #8 02-10-2008, 02:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ashley

Can someone explain the difference please? thx

@count counts the items in the array first, whereas the other method is a bit of a mismatch as the array has named values.

I'm rubbish at explaining things ;D

kube · #9 02-10-2008, 02:31 PM

A better understanding would be to print {$subcategories} and it will give you an array, NaN. Whereas, @count gives a number from counting the array to compare with.

ARW VISIONS · #10 02-10-2008, 02:34 PM

What does the | do?