XF 2.1 Conditional Statement for 1st Page of Forum Only

[jgaulard]

I am trying to display a piece of text on only the first page of my site's forums. For all the following pages, I'd like the text not to show. Does anyone know what code I should use for this conditional statement?

Thanks.

Jay

 

[Russ]

You can use this conditional:

XF 2.1 - Default advertising system: Is there a way to make ads only show on certain pages?

Here's the dilemma I face, so bare with me. The forum in question is https://wranglertjforum.com I have an Amazon banner and Amazon native shopping ads that show up at the bottom of forum overview, forum view, and thread list. Here's an example: To accomplish this, this is what my...

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Gave instructions on how to find the template name there too.

 

[jgaulard]

You can use this conditional:

What I mean is, if I have a certain forum (not the overall website, but one of the many forums contained therein) that has multiple pages and pagination down at the bottom of the thread list, I'd like the conditional to say, only show this text snippet on the first page of this particular forum and not any of the following pages. Something like:

(if page 1 of pagination)
text here
(else)
no text
(/if)

So unfortunately, the conditional you linked to won't work in this case. Thank you though.

 

[Russ]

You can edit the template forum_view and add something like this:

<xf:if is="$page == '1'">
page 1
</xf:if>
<xf:if is="$page == '2'">
page 2
</xf:if>

Appears to work there.

 

[jgaulard]

You can edit the template forum_view and add something like this:

Thanks very much for this. Your code needed one small tweak to work. I changed "$page" to "$pageNumber" and it's working.

Thanks again.

Jay

PS - I added this code to the PAGE_CONTAINER template because I wanted it to affect the description text that physically shows to the user on the forum page.

 

[ideasmania]

Thank you @jgaulard, that tip worked for me. In my case the text I looked for to show is the description.
I paste the code

              <xf:if is="$pageNumber == '1' AND $description is not empty">
                    <div class="p-description">{$description}</div>
                </xf:if>

Just a question, the block of text snippet that you added at the end of your forum view, is that an add-on? an extra field? (the one I refer on the attachment)
Thank you in advance and kind regards

 

[jgaulard]

Thank you @jgaulard, that tip worked for me. In my case the text I looked for to show is the description.
I paste the code

              <xf:if is="$pageNumber == '1' AND $description is not empty">
                    <div class="p-description">{$description}</div>
                </xf:if>

Just a question, the block of text snippet that you added at the end of your forum view, is that an add-on? an extra field? (the one I refer on the attachment)
Thank you in advance and kind regards

That's a great question and one I have been meaning to answer in a post for a while. Let me write it up so I can explain everything thoroughly and when it's completed, I'll link to if here. It shouldn't take too long.

UPDATE:

I wrote the post with the instructions in it. Please take a look here:

How to Add Extra Descriptions to XenForo Forum Pages

If you've been involved with websites and SEO for any amount of time, you most likely know that category (forum) pages can actually rank in the search engines if they've got some nice, full, unique (well researched and written) content on them. In many cases on websites such as forums...

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Thanks!