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Hi, trying to just list entries by an author on a sidebar only if they have them. I think I am doing the if statement wrong - any ideas?

{if title}
blog entries by {firstname}

{exp:channel:entries channel="blog" username="{segment_3}" limit="3" orderby="date" dynamic="no"}
<a href="http://{title_permalink=blog/entry}">{title}</a>

{/exp:channel:entries}
{/if}

stevo-s,

Let’s see if we can get this sorted out. Your conditional should go inside the {exp:channel:entries}{/exp:channel:entries} and you can check for results:

{exp:channel:entries channel="blog" username="{segment_3}" limit="3" orderby="date" dynamic="no"}
{if no results}
no results content
{if:else}
{title}
blog entries by {firstname}

<a href="http://{title_permalink=blog/entry}">{title}</a>

{/if}
{/exp:channel:entries}

Let us know if you have any further questions.

Cheers,

Thanks Dan - getting this error though -

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING 

libraries/Functions.php(656) : eval()'d code on line 52

I think that should have been {if no_results} ?
fixes the parse error but it still doesn’t show the no results or results message though -just blank.

should there be a second if statement ?

anyone ideas why this wouldn’t work?

{exp:channel:entries channel="blog" username="{segment_3}" limit="3" orderby="date" dynamic="no"}
{if no_results}
no results
{if:else}
Blog entries by {firstname}

<a href="http://{title_permalink=blog/entry}">{title}</a>
{/if}
{/exp:channel:entries}

If I remove the if statement altogether for some reason it works ok and doesn’t print the ‘blog entries by ’ text if there are no entries for a page - weird - is the entire page badly done?

here’s the code of the page:

<div id="page">
<div id="content_wrapper">

{exp:channel:entries channel="portfolios" username="{segment_3}" limit="1"}
<h3>{firstname} {surname}<h3>

{/exp:channel:entries}

{exp:channel:entries channel="portfolios" orderby="date" dynamic="off" username="{segment_3}" sort="desc"  limit="6"}
{thumbnail}{path}_thumb_folio/{filename}.{extension}{/thumbnail}
{paginate} Page {current_page} of {total_pages} pages {pagination_links}{/paginate}
{/exp:channel:entries}


<div id="sidebar">
{exp:channel:entries channel="portfolios" dynamic="off" username="{segment_3}"  limit="1"}
{if avatar}{avatar_url}{/if}
{firstname} {surname} 

{if bio}{bio} 
{/if}
{if address}{address} 
{/if}
{if mobile}{mobile}
{/if}
{if twitter}<a href="http://twitter.com/{twitter}">twitter</a>
{/if}
{if facebook}<a href="http://www.facebook.com/{facebook}">facebook</a>
{/if}
<a href="mailto:{email}">email</a> 

{if url}<a href="http://{url}">Website</a>
{/if}
{/exp:channel:entries}

{exp:channel:entries channel="blog" username="{segment_3}" limit="5" orderby="date" dynamic="no"}
blog entries by {firstname}: 

<a href="http://{title_permalink=blog/entry}">{title}</a>
{/exp:channel:entries}
</div>

</div> 
</div>

Does this code look ok or is the no results formatted wrong?

Hi Stevo,

When using no_results its best (from what I’ve read at least) to just have {if no_results}no results message here{/if} - so avoid the if:else here, its not necessary

It looks like 2 of your channel entries loops could be replaced by one, something like this:

{exp:channel:entries channel="portfolios" username="{segment_3}" orderby="date" dynamic="off" sort="desc"  limit="6"}
   {if count == 1} // this returns true only for the first entry, hence only repeats this once
     <h3>{firstname} {surname}<h3>
   {/if}
   {thumbnail}{path}_thumb_folio/{filename}.{extension}{/thumbnail} // looks like a strange write the path
   {paginate} Page {current_page} of {total_pages} pages {pagination_links}{/paginate}
   {if no_results}
      No results
   {/if}
{/exp:channel:entries}

<div id="sidebar">
   {exp:channel:entries channel="portfolios" username="{segment_3}"  dynamic="off" limit="1"}
     Member fields here
   {/exp:channel:entries}
   Blog  code here
</div>

Also note the path to the image looks a bit odd… is this using an addon or something? And if you’re trying to do anything remotely custom with member data you’d be better off using solspace user. Seems a bit strange using a channel entries loop just to pull member data in the sidebar, you could try {exp:member:custom_profile_data} if you have the member ID.

ANyway hope this helps!

thanks dave, yes - using CE image for the images. That’s not the full code.

you could try {exp:member:custom_profile_data} if you have the member ID.

Tried that but it didn’t work at all. Maybe I need a better example, what was in the user-guide didn’t work anyway. Couldn’t figure out how to get the id.

Well firstly, try your initial code with the no results code I suggested (without the {if:else}). You cant have an if:else in a no results tag as far as I know, since its not really a conditional, its just a string that gets replaced with something if theres no results.

For anything member-related like this I’d suggest solspace user. Its rather annoying how little flexiblity you get with member templates by default in EE. A problem that has no doubt made Solspace a LOT of money.

{exp:member:custom_profile_data} should work if you use it right, add the member_id=”{segment_3}” param (assuming you can pass through the ID in the url).

Yep - removing the if:else seems to do the trick - thanks

{exp:channel:entries channel="blog" username="{segment_3}" limit="5" orderby="date" dynamic="no"}
{if no_results}
no results
{/if}
blog entries by {firstname}

<a href="http://{title_permalink=blog/entry}">{title}</a>
{/exp:channel:entries}

I don’t think I need solspace users as it is really through the CP I need authors to do everything - entries, email etc.,
I don’t have any other signed up members apart from a core of about 60. It would help If I could remove fields I don’t need like ICQ, birthdays etc., but I’ll just have to live with it.

the profile fields work ok in channel:entries I was told in a previous post? certainly seems to be fine.

Tried this code but it produces nothing. Tried puttin in 1, 2 in member_id or other and that didn’t work either.

{exp:member:custom_profile_data member_id="{segment_3}"}    
{firstname} {surname} 

{if bio}{bio} 
{/if}
{if address}{address} 
{/if}
{if mobile}{mobile}
{/if}
{/exp:member:custom_profile_data}

GLad the if:else worked! Re the custom_profile_data tag, if it doesn’t work according to the docs here - http://ellislab.com/expressionengine/user-guide/modules/member/custom_profile_data.html - then it could be a bug. And yep the profile fields work in the channel entries loop, just seems wrong having to use channel:entries just for user data. Still works though.

stevo_s,

I apologize for my typos. Dave thanks for sorting me out, that was a late night and I’m not sure where my head was 😉

I’ll try to replicate your issue with {exp:member:custom_profile_data} and see if we have a bug on our hands.

Cheers,