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Hey,
I’ve been researching the web for a few hours and trying multiple things with no luck.
One of my custom fields is a cover image and I’m trying to define how the output is going to look based on the category of the entry.

Here’s my code:

{!-- If entry has Cover --}
{if entry_cover}
 <div class="cover">
 {categories}
  {if category_id == '2'}
   {entry_cover}
    <a href="http://{page_url}">{path}_xlo/{filename}.{extension}</a>
   {/entry_cover}
  {if:else}
   {entry_cover}
    <a href="http://{page_url}">{path}_xl/{filename}.{extension}</a>
   {/entry_cover}
  {/if}
 {/categories}
 </div>
{/if}

The problem is that the “else” statement isn’t working. When there’s no image it will simply ignore everything. Is there a problem with including a field multiple times? If so is there a workaround?

I also tried the following syntax with no luck:

{!-- If entry has Cover --}
{if entry_cover}
 <div class="cover">
  {entry_cover}
   <a href="http://{page_url}">_      <a href="_         {path}_         {categories}_         {if category_id == 8GvF9n3wHCcx2Docrpb3kACYrsYvLeeatypography_img_src_end2} _xlo/ {if:else} _xl/ {/if}_         {filename}.{extension} tag={url_title} ">_         {path}_         {categories}_         {if category_id == 8GvF9n3wHCcx2Docrpb3kACYrsYvLeeatypography_img_src_end2} _xlo/ {if:else} _xl/ {/if}_         {filename}.{extension} tag={url_title} </a>_   </a>
  {/entry_cover}
 </div>
{/if}

This results in {entry_cover}{/entry_cover} being showed as text with an <img> tag with no source.

Any suggestions?

EDIT: It looks like some of the characters in my second code sample were being escaped. Had to add some spaces and line breaks to avoid this. There are no spaces or line breaks in the <img> tag.

I was able to solve this using stash.

Apparently the problem was in having a field called twice. Can someone explain why this is a problem or point me in the direction to find the answer?

Thanks.

False alarm, the stash variable wasn’t even working. still trying to figure out a way to make this work. Anyone?