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Hi Matt. Thanks again for getting back to me.

I have limited it down to just one segment of the conditional to test.

If I move the conditional outside of the exp:channel:entries tag pair, then it cant see any results.

Yes, headache is right! I don’t seem to be getting anywhere here.

Is there anyway you can think of doing this without using the conditionals?

Can you post the latest version of the code with the simplified conditional?

Here is the simplified code, with the channel entry tags outside of the conditional.

<ul>

{if segment_2 == "" XOR (segment_2 == "africa" AND continent == "africa")}

{exp:channel:entries channel="tours" limit="10" orderby="date" sort="asc" dynamic="no"}

{tour_date}

    <li>

    {title} - {tour_price}

    </li>

{/tour_date}

{/exp:channel:entries}

{if:else}
No
{/if}

</ul>

With this code, the if else statement returns a message. If I use no_result it doesn’t return anything. However, this code returns no tours even if tours are selected as ‘africa’, thus it doesn’t work.

Thanks

hi again

the first bit won’t work

{if segment_2 == "" XOR (segment_2 == "africa" AND continent == "africa")}

checking for the continent variable outside of the exp:channel query won’t work. you’ll need to check the segment outside and check the continent inside, if that makes sense!

i think you’re also missing an end to one of your ifs.

Again thanks for getting back to me.

Hmm, how would I check outside and inside? Could you give me an example?

I have checked the code, I only have one open if, if:else and close if. Where is the missing close if?

Thanks

sorry my bad re. the if.

try something like this - note i haven’t used the search: parameter before but should be something like this

<ul>

{if segment_2 == "africa"}

{exp:channel:entries channel="tours" limit="10" orderby="date" sort="asc" dynamic="no" search:continent="=africa"}

  {tour_date}

    <li>{title} - {tour_price}</li>

  {/tour_date}

{/exp:channel:entries}

{if:else}

Not africa

{/if}

</ul>

see here if you need to tweak the search parameter

http://ellislab.com/expressionengine/user-guide/modules/channel/channel_entries.html#search-field-name

Thanks Matt.

This works for this single variable. But how could I get this to work with all the different refining options I need? Also, this only appears to work with textarea, text input and dropdown fields. I am using a matrix field for dates.

Any ideas?

may i ask why you’re using matrix fields for dates?

and i can’t see any reference to dates in your original post…

sorry was being a div.

i think it’s the ‘search:continent” which only works with those type of fields. you should be able to use any type of field in the output

From the user guide - “Note: Only fields of the type “Text Input”, “Textarea”, and “Drop-down Lists” are searched with this parameter.”

I removed all the conditionals but one to simplify it.

I will be looking to refine by, continent, month/year, price and fitness.

I am using Cart Throb with Matrix. I need to specify a start, and end date for each tour, so am using a matrix field with a fieldtype of ‘dropdate’.

I have just tried using the search option to look in the matrix field and there are no results and no message.

I tried this: search:tour_date=”{segment_2}”

I have found an equivalent for Matrix so it works.

<ul>

{if segment_2 == "2012"}

{exp:channel:entries channel="tours" limit="10" orderby="date" sort="asc" dynamic="no"}

{tour_date search:option_value="2012"}
    
    <li>
    {title} - {tour_price}
 </li>

  {/tour_date}

{/exp:channel:entries}

{if:else}

Not africa

{/if}

</ul>

I am not quite sure how I can use conditions to execute all the different refining options though. How can I get multiple conditionals in this?

Thank you

doesn’t look like you can use variables in the search: parameter so this won’t work

search:tour_date=”{segment_2}”

so we need to think again.

have you looked at custom queries at all? it looks to me like a sql query might be your best bet. complicated though!