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Hi,
I’m doing some conditionals on a search results page, and I think either there are limitations I have not found in the docs, or I am doing something wrong.

Example one:

What does NOT work:

{if:elseif weblog_short_name="myname1"}

This returns a totally blank page, indicating that the syntax has caused an error.
What *does* work is:

{if:elseif weblog_short_name=="myname1"}

My need is to say, if the weblog short name contains a word, then act this way.  I have 14 weblogs that have the word “news” in them, and want to have a rule for all of them without listing them out.

So, this has not worked.

My other attempt to solve the problem also doesn’t seem to be working…probably the same limitation:

{if:elseif weblog_short_name="myname1|myname2|myname3|myname4"}

Is my syntax incorrect, or is there a limitation that you cannot do “contains” matching with an elseif statment? 

Thanks
Phoebe

Two things: 1) No, you cannot do a “contains” match like that, and 2) the equal comparison operator does indeed contain of two equal signs, {if foo == bar}.

thanks.

right, but if you do usually a search or if statement with ONE equal sign, then usually it means “contains”.

so {if foo = "bar"}

translates to

if foo contains the word bar anywhere in it.

That works, but not in this kind of conditional, which is odd (to me)

I found a workaround tho.

Thanks!

Phoebe

Glad you found a workaround. Don’t hesitate to post again as needed.