XF 2.1 How to check a variable using a conditional? (XF Template)

[Arnox]

I can't believe this has never been asked before, but anyway, here is my code so far.

<xf:set var="$number">
    {{ rand(1,3) }}
</xf:set>
<xf:if is="{$number} == 1">
    <a href="URL"><img src="image URL"></a>
<xf:else />
    <p>{$number}</p>
</xf:if>

The problem here is specifically this line:

<xf:if is="{$number} == 1">

If it is as above, it will always fire and display the image, no matter what the random number is. But if it is as below:

<xf:if is="{$number} == '1'">

It will never fire and will just print out the variable.

What it SHOULD be doing is firing if the random number is 1 and just printing the variable otherwise. I've looked all over and I'm not sure what the hell the issue is here.

 

[Paul B]

Change the first 3 lines to:

<xf:set var="$number" value="{{ rand(1,3) }}" />

 

[Arnox]

Change the first 3 lines to:

<xf:set var="$number" value="{{ rand(1,3) }}" />

Just as you posted this, I figured it out. XD But thank you so much anyway! It's incredibly weird that that was the issue the entire time.

Also, for reference, I found out you can also get a random integer by doing {{ {$xf.time} % x + 1 }} instead of {{ rand(1,x) }}, where x is the maximum random integer you want. Not sure how useful that's going to be for anyone, but it's there.

 

[Lukas W.]

It's incredibly weird that that was the issue the entire time.

Your first statement includes the whitespace into the value, so your first check attempts to match a string to an integer, and because you chose loose matching (two instead of three equal-signs) it attempts a best case boolean match, where true equals true is always true. Your second check then is a clear string vs string match, but " 1 " is not equal to "1", so it'll always be false.

You could've probably gotten away with

<xf:set var="$number">{{ rand(1,3) }}</xf:set>

or

<xf:set var="$number"><xf:trim>
{{ rand(1,3) }}
</xf:trim></xf:set>

but this is definitely the cleanest.

<xf:set var="$number" value="{{ rand(1,3) }}" />