Search Widget Conditionals

[Eolesen]

I'm trying to do a modification to Template display_contenttype_searchwidget_item_footer
Right now, on my homepage I have a preview of articles and latest forum activity in the left and center column of a three column page. In the footer for each, I'm trying to add the age of these but conditionally as to which age appears...

For topics, I'd like to show the last post date/time, but for articles, I want to only show the created time (not edits or comments)

Is there an easy way to do this in a conditional? I've tried a few different ideas, but can't land on something that would identify the search result as an article vs a topic.

  <vb:if condition="  (this is a topic ) ">
  Last Activity: {vb:datetime {vb:raw conversation.lastcontent}}
  <vb:else />
  {vb:datetime {vb:raw conversation.created}}
  </vb:if>​

[glennrocksvb]

Try to vardump the conversation variable to compare the values between forum topic and article topic and see which one identifies the post.

{vb:debugvardump conversation}

[Eolesen]

Good suggestion... the $conversation['channelid'] is easy enough to filter on:

<vb:if condition="$conversation['channelid'] == '2283317' OR
$conversation['channelid'] == '1283324' OR
$conversation['channelid'] == '1283325' OR
$conversation['channelid'] == '1283323' OR
$conversation['channelid'] == '1283321' OR
$conversation['channelid'] == '1283322'">
Posted {vb:datetime {vb:raw conversation.created}}
<vb:else />
Last Activity: {vb:datetime {vb:raw conversation.lastcontent}}
</vb:if>​

I'd initially looked into RouteID but getting the Channel ID from the Channel Manager is easier to manage.

[Eolesen]

The finished product:

[glennrocksvb]

Good suggestion... the $conversation['channelid'] is easy enough to filter on:

<vb:if condition="$conversation['channelid'] == '2283317' OR
$conversation['channelid'] == '1283324' OR
$conversation['channelid'] == '1283325' OR
$conversation['channelid'] == '1283323' OR
$conversation['channelid'] == '1283321' OR
$conversation['channelid'] == '1283322'">
Posted {vb:datetime {vb:raw conversation.created}}
<vb:else />
Last Activity: {vb:datetime {vb:raw conversation.lastcontent}}
</vb:if>​

I'd initially looked into RouteID but getting the Channel ID from the Channel Manager is easier to manage.

Nice!

You can also simplify the code to:

<vb:if condition="in_array($conversation['channelid'], array('2283317', 1283324', '1283325', '1283323', '1283321', '1283322'))">​
    Posted {vb:datetime {vb:raw conversation.created}}
<vb:else />
    Last Activity: {vb:datetime {vb:raw conversation.lastcontent}}​
</vb:if>

[Eolesen]

Showoff. I'm still figuring out template coding capabilities. If there were a way to use a db query to pull the article channel IDs, I'd do that vs a hard-coded array, but your way is definitely cleaner.

[glennrocksvb]

Create a custom API and then call it from the template.