Conditional not being evaluated in Advertising System

[lantek]

OK thanks. I'm outside of ticket support scope now, so have been asked to post in the forum.

If using the 'Container Breadcrumb (top): Above' ad unit, would there be any alternative to making the following work?

<xf:if is="{$forum.node_id} == 4">
content here
</xf:if>

Many thanks for any help.

 

[Chris D]

<xf:if is="$__globals.forum.node_id == 4">
content here
</xf:if>

That should work as long as the forum variable is passed up to the container template.

 

[Paul B]

Try:

<xf:if is="{$__globals.forum.node_id} == 4">
    Node 4
</xf:if>

 

[lantek]

<xf:if is="$__globals.forum.node_id == 4">
content here
</xf:if>

That should work as long as the forum variable is passed up to the container template.

Many thanks, that works great.

 

[Paul B]

To add some context and to reiterate what I said in the ticket, you can check what params/variables are available in the template by adding this to the ad unit:

{{ dump(vars()) }}

Then searching for node_id on the page gives this:



However, $forum is not available in that form but if you scroll up you can see it is within __globals:


So the full param is __globals.forum.node_id.

 

[lantek]

To add some context and to reiterate what I said in the ticket, you can check what params/variables are available in the template by adding this to the ad unit:

{{ dump(vars()) }}

Then searching for node_id on the page gives this:

View attachment 162890

However, $forum is not available in that form but if you scroll up you can see it is within __globals:
View attachment 162891

So the full param is __globals.forum.node_id.

Thanks, very helpful!

 

[Russ]

Bumping this thread as I'm using the advertisement system as well.

Is there a conditional for finding the parent category like XF1? I'm not seeing any reference to parent/category when dumping the vars aside from a breadcrumb reference.

 

[Joe Link]

To add some context and to reiterate what I said in the ticket, you can check what params/variables are available in the template by adding this to the ad unit:

{{ dump(vars()) }}

Then searching for node_id on the page gives this:

View attachment 162890

However, $forum is not available in that form but if you scroll up you can see it is within __globals:
View attachment 162891

So the full param is __globals.forum.node_id.

For some reason I can't dump $__globals variables. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

I've this with no luck.

{{ dump($__globals) }}
{{ dump($__globals.forum.node_id) }}

This works fine, but I still don't see __globals on the list.

{{ dump(vars()) }}

 

[Paul B]

Dumping vars will show everything available to that template.

Which template are you using?

 

[Joe Link]

I've tried it in several, PAGE_CONTAINER, forum_view, and thread_view. It always returns "null".

I thought global vars were available everywhere?

 

[Paul B]

It works fine for me.

Add it to the ad template.

 

[Joe Link]

Ah I see it now! Good tip, adding it to an ad template.

Thanks a bunch for your help!