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I’m using 2.1.3 and experiencing variations of this bug. I was trying to use:

{if avatar_url != ""}

which did not work. But this works:

{if avatar}

No problem there, aside from the time wasted trying to solve the problem. A simple conditional should evaluate as expected.

But, I’d like to apply a class based on the member group ID in the comments area. As in:

{if member_group_id == 6}class="admin"{/if}

This does not work, but testing for author_id does work. As in:

{if author_id == 2}class="admin"{/if}

Are there any updates on this bug?

Edit: Adding a link to the original thread so this is in context.
http://ellislab.com/forums/viewthread/174960/

Hi Doug,

Could you try using “member_group” instead of “member_group_id”?

Check out Conditional Global Variables - Member Groups for more details.

Hope you get this sorted out!

Thanks.

Hi Kyle,

Thanks for the suggestion. I just tried this, but all the commenters seem to have the same member group. When I output {member_group}, I get a “1” for everybody. When I output {member_goup_id}, I get the group ID I’m expecting for the members in a particular group. In this case, it’s an ID of “6”. The people that are not registered and just post a comment don’t have a group ID.

So the member group ID would allow me to apply a class to comments from a specific group. The {member_group} doesn’t seem like it would work unfortunately.

Doug

Well, testing for {group_id} works. I’m not sure why that works, and the others don’t. Don’t know if that is a bug or not.

This seems to work for me:

{exp:comment:entries channel="channel_1" paginate="bottom"}
      <div class="comment{if group_id == 6} author{/if}">
      etc…
{/exp:comment:entries}

Hi, dsgreen -

What version are you in?  Working with EE 2.2.0, I put this code in a totally blank template:

{exp:channel:entries channel="test" limit="10"}
<h2><a href="http://{title_permalink=test/index}">{title}</a></h2>
<p>{test}<br />
{/exp:channel:entries}<br />
{exp:comment:entries channel="test" sort="asc" limit="20"}<br />
member_group_id: {member_group_id}</p>

<p>{comment}<br />
By {name} on {comment_date format="%Y %m %d"}<br />
{/exp:comment:entries}

and on the front-end parsing, I did in fact get:

member_group_id: 1

so it appears to be working in EE 2.2.

Hi Lisa, I’m using 2.1.3.

Doug