Test for Fragment at Section Level

[guyc]

Hello....

Could someone provide some assistance with testing whether a section has a fragment or not?

Something very similar to the

<actinic:variable name="SectionHasVisibleProduct" />

variable would be awesome, just need it to tell me whether there's a fragment or not instead.

All help much appreciated....

Regards,

Guy

[fergusw]

It depends on where you need this condition.

e.g. if you wanted to show if it had fragments or not inside that section's link layout then you could use a simple:

        <actinic:block type="ProductList" >
            <actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22ProductType%22%20%2f%3e%20%3d%3d%202" >
                HERE BE FRAGMENTS
            </actinic:block>
        </actinic:block>

which will spit something out for each fragment inside that section.

You could adapt this with a true/false PHP variable which could be used to determine if there were any fragments in the section and then do something accordingly.

The key point is that fragments and products are both looped through in the ProductList. The difference is products and duplicates have their ProductType property set to 0 and 1 respectively. Fragments have a ProductType equal to 2.

This may help you some of the way....

[guyc]

Hey Fergus,

Thanks for the advice, I've put something together which is doing the job. It shows a SectionTitle & SectionDescription if no fragment or products are on the page.

I'm going to paste the code. Although it works I'm not sure i've nailed the way things are done in Actinic so it's here incase you, or anyone else, can offer any advice on how to improve it.

<actinic:block php="true" >
	$frag = 0;
</actinic:block>
	
<actinic:block type="ProductList" >
<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22ProductType%22%20%2f%3e%20%3d%3d%202" >
	<actinic:block php="true" >
		$frag = 1;
	</actinic:block>
</actinic:block>
</actinic:block>
	
<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22SectionHasVisibleProduct%22%20%2f%3e%20%3d%3d%20false">
	<actinic:block php="true" >	
		if ($frag == 0) echo "<h1><actinic:variable name="SectionName" /></h1><p class=\"sectionDesc\"><actinic:variable name="SectionDescription" /></p>";
	</actinic:block>
</actinic:block>

Guy