I am currently in the process of creating a physician directory for a larger health system site that is in redevelopment here at Pleth, LLC. As I was going through the motions of coding templates for my Ditto output I realized that with such a large number of fields per page my layout was beginning to suffer as fields were being left blank by the end user. I came across this PHx solution in the MODx forum and wanted to share it since it is a simple solution to an otherwise frustrating problem.
The basic structure I started with:
A Variable: [+avariable+]<br />
The new structure (uses backticks):
[+avariable:isnot=``:then='A Variable: [+avariable+]<br />`+]
You could also use the phx snippet ifempty, then you can just do [*MYTV:ifempty=``*]
There's also a notempty is use often so it could be [*MYTV:ifnotempty=`<img src="[**MYTV*] />`*]
Lots of cool ways to use phx
September 7th, 2009 at 5:16 pm
Thanks, I was wondering about that the other day. It looks like you could probably use that to display a default image if no image was uploaded for a TV.
September 7th, 2009 at 5:21 pm
You could also use the phx snippet ifempty, then you can just do [*MYTV:ifempty=``*]
There's also a notempty is use often so it could be [*MYTV:ifnotempty=`<img src="[**MYTV*] />`*]
Lots of cool ways to use phx
September 7th, 2009 at 10:16 pm
Thanks, I was wondering about that the other day. It looks like you could probably use that to display a default image if no image was uploaded for a TV.
September 7th, 2009 at 10:21 pm