How to parse in outer template if product is visible on the page

[bangers]

Hi All,
Asked about this sort of thing before:
http://community.actinic.com/showpos...26&postcount=7

I need to parse content to my main outer template if a product appears on the page (not a specific product, just any product/s).

I think norman came up with a php idea in the post I have linked to but it doesn't work for me and maybe it gets broken as I have to parse javascript to the page.

Any other thoughts, can it be done just using blockif without php?

I think it would be very useful if this could be done,
Regards
Bangers

[bangers]

OK I thnk I got it:

<actinic:variable name="MainSection::SectionHasVisibleProduct" /> == false

or

<actinic:variable name="MainSection::SectionHasVisibleProduct" />

depending on what you need, seems to work so far. Anything smacking others in the face that it won't work?

Does anyone concur that this does indeed work?

Regards
Bangers

[NormanRouxel]

Just test it on Brochure and Cart type pages to be sure it's OK there.

[NormanRouxel]

That error may be coming from Cart, Search, etc. pages where Section variables are meaningless.

Perhaps putting a BlockIf of PageType == "Section" around the code in question will fix it.

[NormanRouxel]

But Products only exist in Sections (and possibly the store top page).

[peblaco]

The code I was playing with was to show something on non product pages. Using 'PageType == Section' would not work as it blocks code from brochure and cart etc. I was trying to think of a way around multiple blockifs. By the way bangers code does work if but for the "you're not really meant to use that variable in this layout" warnings.

[NormanRouxel]

Louise,

Ahah. You're doing something different.

Only variable mentioned so far was MainSection::SectionHasVisibleProduct so that's what I was talking about.

Would need to know what you're doing to be able to suggest anything.

If it's code meant to show on all non-Section pages and not show for Section ones, then PageType != "Section" would do.

[NormanRouxel]

It can be simplified slightly:

BLOCKIF PAGETYPE == SECTION
	BLOCKIF SECTIONHASVISIBLEPRODUCT
		Code for sections with products (no banner or alternative code)
	/BLOCKIF
	BLOCKIF SECTIONHASVISIBLEPRODUCT == FALSE
		Code for sections without products (banner)
	/BLOCKIF
/BLOCKIF

BLOCKIF PAGETYPE != SECTION
	Code for non sections (banner for brochure, cart etc)
/BLOCKIF

[NormanRouxel]

And a note for V11 tweakers. The new Product Page layouts return a PageType of "Product Page". So you may need:

BLOCKIF (PAGETYPE == SECTION) OR (PAGETYPE == PRODUCT PAGE)

and the converse:

BLOCKIF (PAGETYPE != SECTION) AND (PAGETYPE != PRODUCT PAGE)