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Hi there,

Why does this work:

{if url_title == '{segment_2}’}

But this doesn’t?

{if segment_2 == '{url_title}’}

Thanks in advance,

L.

in short i dunno… but i bet this would.

{if "{url_title}" == "{segment_2}"}
{if "{segment_2}" == "{url_title}"}

Did you try:

{if url_title == segment_2}

Thanks both,

I’m actually able to achieve what I want with this:

{if url_title == ‘{segment_2}’}

My question is, why does that above work, when the one below does not?

{if segment_2 == ‘{url_title}’}

Because putting quotes around variable names can cause the conditional to check against the literal value rather than the contents of the variable. I avoid it generally.

I’m not sure I follow this logic either?

This is why I call it Strange Logic.

Because this works (note the ‘{segment_2}’:

{if url_title == ‘{segment_2}’}

But this doesn’t (note the ‘{url_title}’):

{if segment_2 == ‘{url_title}’}

???

I’ve had inconsistent results as well - and just never took the time to investigate them once I found that dropping all quotes was more reliable..😉

IIRC there was even a security risk in quoting variables - if the contents of the variable might contain user-provided content.

OK, thanks Boyink!

L.

Loquela,

It’s a parsing issue you run into I believe. A segment variable is parsed first and then a simple conditional

{if url_title == '{segment_2}'}

Doing it this way makes sure you are using the pre-parsed segment variable. The same way this might work

{if "{segment_2}" == "{url_title}"}