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Hey there,

I’m running EE 2.2.1,  and have one template which is conditionally pulling in one of several snippets,  depending on different factors.  For example,  the template looks something like:

...

{if segment_1 == "products"}{snippet_one}{/if}
{if segment_1 == "services"}{snippet_two}{/if}
{if channel == "MyChannel"}{snippet_three}{/if}

...

For weeks,  this has seemingly worked just fine,  and it only displays the proper snippet based on the conditionals.

However,  I was just adding some javascript to one of my snippets,  and had an error in my syntax,  which broke the rendering of that page.  The thing is,  it produced the same error on ALL of the pages using this template,  even those that weren’t calling that one bad snippet.

This leads me to believe that regardless of the conditionals above,  it’s at least reading ALL of the snippets,  even if it’s not showing them…

Any clarification on the parse order between snippets and their surrounding conditionals?

Tx!

ira42,

When did you install EE2.2.1? There are some hotfixes which were released on the 5th which fixed broken js

Can you apply that and see if the behaviour still persists

Snippets are called before simple conditionals

Here’s a good pdf on the Parse Order of EE

Thanks, I think I’ve tracked it down to an issue with a 3rd party addon (Snippet Sync).

It’s probably a similar issue to the one fixed by the hotfix.  Snippet Sync reads snippet files in the filesystem and syncs them to the db,  but ONLY if you’re logged in as a super admin, or if debugging is set to 1 or 2.  What was happening is that I WAS logged in but then the EE login timed out after a few hours,  and it wasn’t able to sync.  (I think)

I will follow up with the addon developer,  because I am still occasionally getting the following EE error, when EE logs me out (after hotfix as well):

Unable to load requested field type file: ft..php.

And thanks for the PDF about parse order!  Very handy.  This was also discussed in the EE Weekly Chat last night.  We determined the same,  that ALL of the Snippets will be parsed, before the conditionals decide whether or not to display them. 

But if I understand this correctly,  even though the snippets are parsed first,  the module and plugin tags within them will still only be run,  if the surrounding conditional returns true?

Oh,  and let me just say what a JOY it was,  to be able to download a Hotfix,  with just the required (modified) files.  It’s a simple change to the hotfix distribution,  but makes a HUGE difference.  Yay!

Hi, ira42,

Essentially, snippets are intended to be parsed as they are encountered, exactly as if they were directly there in the template instead of a snippet.  That is how you should approach them when optimizing your site. 

Att his point, are you all fixed up and working? Did your addon dev help you fix that ft..php issue?

Thanks!

Hey Lisa,

Actually,  I haven’t encountered the error in a while,  (but I haven’t worked on that site too often lately either).

I think it’s safe to close this.  If it crops up again,  I can follow up with the addon dev.

Cheers

Awesome, Ira!  You know where we are if you need help. Thank you =)