XF 1.4 Gender Conditionals

[Amaury]

A while ago I created a phrase to use for status updates in the news feed (by default, there is no phrase and it just shows the username and the status itself). I just used their in the phrase, but is there a way I can make it display the appropriate gender pronoun as follows:

• His (if the person has male as their gender)
• Her (if the person has female as their gender)
• Their (if the person has selected no gender)

 

[Liam W]

Yes - the gender is stored in the gender field.

So, this template content (news_feed_item_user_status) would work:

<h3 class="description"><xen:username user="$user" class="primaryText" /> <xen:if is="{$user.gender} == 'male'">{xen:phrase updated_his_status}<xen:elseif is="{$user.gender} == 'female'" />{xen:phrase updated_her_status}<xen:else />{updated_their_status}</xen:if> <em>{xen:helper bodyText, $status.new}</em></h3>

Liam

Edit: Drat, one problem Fixed now though, the code above is tested.

 

[Amaury]

Yes - the gender is stored in the gender field.

So, this template content (news_feed_item_user_status) would work:

<h3 class="description"><xen:username user="$user" class="primaryText" /> <xen:if is="{$user.gender} == 'male'">{xen:phrase updated_his_status}<xen:elseif is="{$user.gender} == 'female'" />{xen:phrase updated_her_status}<xen:else />{updated_their_status}</xen:if> <em>{xen:helper bodyText, $status.new}</em></h3>

Liam

Edit: Drat, one problem Fixed now though, the code above is tested.

I'll give it a try when I'm back on my desktop. Thanks!

 

[Amaury]

@Liam W, gave it a try, changing the phrase names to match accordingly, to no avail.

 

[Amaury]

@Liam W?

 

[Jashugan]

To be honest I don't know why this isn't already standard in Xenforo. I mean it's such a simple thing for the devs to include that would make XF better for everyone who uses it.

 

[Optic]

@Liam W, gave it a try, changing the phrase names to match accordingly, to no avail.

Did you create new phrases for this or hard-code them?

 

[Amaury]

Did you create new phrases for this or hard-code them?

New phrase.

 

[Amaury]

@Liam W, @Optic, still looking for some help when you have the time.

 

[mike406]

Using news_feed_item_user_status doesn't appear to work where we want to make this change, we found that news_feed_item_profile_post_insert is the necessary template. However $user.gender doesn't seem to work in this template, so we're stuck trying to figure out how we can distinguish gender here.

 

[Amaury]

@Russ, @Steve F, do you guys have any ideas?

 

[Paul B]

Adding this to the template will show what is available for the user record:

{xen:helper dump, $user}

In this case just user_id and username are available in the news_feed_item_profile_post_insert template.

Custom development would be required to make the gender available in the record.

 

[Amaury]

@Brogan, thank you so much!

I've let Mike know about your response.

Really appreciate it!