xenSyntax

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Is there a guide, other than the [very sparse, time consuming] series of posts on this forum, to the xen template syntax?

We want to customize some aspects of the software, and having to learn it in the process.
At the moment, we are trying to do, sing the forum_view template, is a conditional test to change the link to the post button based on which forum the user is in. Base template code is:

<xen:if is="{$canPostThread}">
<xen:set var="$newDiscussionButton"><a href="{xen:link 'forums/create-thread', $forum}" class="callToAction"><span>{xenhrase post_new_thread}</span></a></xen:set>
<xen:if is="!{$renderedNodes}">
<xen:topctrl>{xen:raw $newDiscussionButton}</xen:topctrl>
</xen:if>
</xen:if>



What we would like to do is something more like this:

switch($forum)
case "gaming"
<xen:set var="$newDiscussionButton"><a href="{xen:link 'somewhere-else', $forum}"
case "tennis"
<xen:set var="$newDiscussionButton"><a href="{xen:link 'post_in-tennis', $forum}"
...
...
And so on. Obviously I am coming form a different programming background there, hence wanting to know more about the syntax, globals, etc.

 

[Jake Bunce]

There is no "switch" construct you can use in the templates, but you can use this:

<xen:if is="{$forum.node_id} == 1">
	FOR FORUM 1
<xen:elseif is="{$forum.node_id} == 2" />
	FOR FORUM 2
<xen:elseif is="{$forum.node_id} == 3" />
	FOR FORUM 3
<xen:elseif is="{$forum.node_id} == 4" />
	FOR FORUM 4
<xen:else />
	FOR ALL OTHER FORUMS
</xen:if>

 

[Jake Bunce]

And see my posts in this thread for some docs:

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/when-will-we-see-a-developer-documentation.13779/