Not showing in the main categories

[Mitchell]

Hi,

How can I have the following sentence which appears on empty SUB-CATEGORIES and PARENT CATEGORIES to only apears on empty SUB-CATEGORIES and NOT on the main CATEGORIES!

"There is not link on this category."

Cheers
Mitchell

[Bruceper]

You'd need to use an IF statement. I don't know what exactly but something like

if parent == 0
leave this blank
else
There is not link on this category.
/if

[Mitchell]

You'd need to use an IF statement. I don't know what exactly but something like

if parent == 0
leave this blank
else
There is not link on this category.
/if

Thanks Bruce
Should I use it in the browse? Any one knows the excat code please?

[Bruceper]

Yes it would need to be used in browse.html

[Mitchell]

The existing code is;

<%if $link%>
<%block_sort_links use_pagerank="yes" use_custom_field="yes" exclude_custom_field=""%>
<%$link%>
<%else%>
<%t%>There is no link here.<%/t%>
<%/if%>

I tried adding some thing like this but didn't work,

<%if parent == 0%>
leave this blank
<%else%>

Already there is another <%else%> there, can I add another one too?

[FSGDAG]

I think you need to use

<%elseif%>

when there is already another <%else%> in the same statement. Let Bruce or one of the other wiser PHP guys confirm this though


EDIT - I change my "elseif" above to match what Bruce said below. My original one had a space in it.

[Bruceper]

Two else's don't make a right

Yes if you want more than one else the second one needs to be an elseif

[FSGDAG]

Two else's don't make a right

Ohh man... My knee hurts from all the slapping!!!

[Mitchell]

[Mitchell]

This is the bast I can think and still have no idea what to do with "leave this blank", whee that goes?

<%if $link%>
<%block_sort_links use_pagerank="yes" use_custom_field="yes" exclude_custom_field="long_description"%>
<%$link%>
<%else%>
<%if $parent == 0%>
leave this blank
<%elseif%>
<%t%>There is no link here.<%/t%>
<%/if%>

[Bruceper]

Leave this blank means exactly that, dont' have anything there.

The script will probably ***** about that so just put an &nbsp; there and it's all good.

[Mitchell]

Okay,

This one didn't work, the subcategory pages didn't load after I changed it.

<%if $link%>
<%block_sort_links use_pagerank="yes" use_custom_field="yes" exclude_custom_field=""%>
<%$link%>
<%else%>
<%t%>There is no link here. <%/t%>
<%elseif%>
<%if $parent == 0%>
&nbsp;
<%/if%>

[FSGDAG]

Try this...

<%if $link%>
<%block_sort_links use_pagerank="yes" use_custom_field="yes" exclude_custom_field=""%>
<%$link%>
<%else%>
<%if $parent == 0%>
<%t%>&nbsp;<%/t%> 
<%elseif%>
<%t%>There is no link here. <%/t%> 
<%/if%> 

I added a text output for the "&nbsp;". I also changed the order of the <else> statement. I think you want to check for the parent ID first.

Again, I'm not a programmer, but maybe it doesn't like the space command without a text output statement and the order of it.

If this works, I require your next child to be named after me!!!!

[Mitchell]

Thanks for your help, unfortunately didn't work, I get the following message;

Fatal error: Smarty error: [in /home/wedonly/public_html/themes/bridal/browse.html line 47]: syntax error: 'elseif' statement requires arguments (Smarty_Compiler.class.php, line 1256) in /home/wedonly/public_html/lib/smarty/Smarty.class.php on line 1088

[esm]

Okay,

This one didn't work, the subcategory pages didn't load after I changed it.

<%if $link%>
<%block_sort_links use_pagerank="yes" use_custom_field="yes" exclude_custom_field=""%>
<%$link%>
<%else%>
<%t%>There is no link here. <%/t%> 
<%elseif%>
<%if $parent == 0%>
&nbsp;
<%/if%>

the pseudo code for the IF statement is:

BEGIN IF
ELSEIF
ELSE
END IF

The ELSEIF must appear before the ELSE



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