XF 2.2 User _relations as a conditional statement?

[John917]

Is there a way to use _relations instead of _values for conditional statements?

 

[Jeremy P]

In what manner? They are both accessible on the object for you to use how you wish.

if ($entity->Category) {
    // ...
}

 

[John917]

Well in html <xf:if

Also it's an honor to get a response from you lol thanks @Jeremy P

 

[Jeremy P]

It's the same object and can be accomplished equivalently:

<xf:if is="$entity.Category">
    <!-- ... -->
</xf:if>

 

[John917]

Weird, because I tried the full path and it doesn't work. It works for _value variables though.

<xf:if is="$xf.reply.viewParams.resource.Category.custom == '134'">

 

[Jeremy P]

No idea why that would be but it would typically point to a more fundamental problem. The view parameters aren't typically accessible via $xf.reply.viewParams. Otherwise you might try dumping the objects to ensure they're what you'd expect them to be:

{{ dump($resource) }}
{{ dump($resource.Category) }}

 

[John917]

Yea it seems like dumping the object itself has the variables but doesn't return the values I need like it does if I just do a full dump vars. Hence explains why it's not working.
{{ dump($xf.reply.viewParams.resource) }}

Oh well xP

 

[John917]

No idea why that would be but it would typically point to a more fundamental problem. The view parameters aren't typically accessible via $xf.reply.viewParams. Otherwise you might try dumping the objects to ensure they're what you'd expect them to be:

{{ dump($resource) }}
{{ dump($resource.Category) }}

Wait it works when I use this
{{ dump($xf.reply.viewParams.resource.Category) }}
And shows this


So I tried this <xf:if is="$xf.reply.viewParams.resource.Category.slug == 'og'">
Doesn't work :/

 

[Jeremy P]

That dump shows some object (unclear if it's an entity at all) that has a protected property called room which is an array with a slug key. None of that is in the core so I can't tell you if or how the protected property could be accessed.

You might also try {{ dump(vars()) }} to see if there's another variable with the object you're looking for, as again using $xf.reply is not typical.

 

[John917]

That makes sense. It's probably protected. I tried every variation lol. Thank you Jeremy!!!!