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Too many {if} Statements

October 03, 2013 11:17am

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  • #1 / Oct 03, 2013 11:17am

    Businessport46

    9 posts

    I have a large selection of {if} statements in the header template of my website and those statements check the page name and deliver meta data that is relevant, the problem I have is I have too many statements and as such they stop rendering after a certain number and no data is display at all.  Here is an example of my code:

    <head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" c>
  <title>{embed:my_page_title} | {site_name}</title>
  <meta name="keywords" c embed:my_page_title=="Home"}{exp:channel:entries channel="meta_data" entry_id="101"}{meta_tag}{/exp:channel:entries}{/if}
{if embed:my_page_title=="About us"}{exp:channel:entries channel="meta_data" entry_id="102"}{meta_tag}{/exp:channel:entries}{/if} 
{if embed:my_page_title=="Training"}{exp:channel:entries channel="meta_data" entry_id="105"}{meta_tag}{/exp:channel:entries}{/if}
{if embed:my_page_title=="Sectors"}{exp:channel:entries channel="meta_data" entry_id="106"}{meta_tag}{/exp:channel:entries}{/if}
{if embed:my_page_title=="Energy"}{exp:channel:entries channel="meta_data" entry_id="107"}{meta_tag}{/exp:channel:entries}{/if}
{if embed:my_page_title=="Infrastructure"}{exp:channel:entries channel="meta_data" entry_id="108"}{meta_tag}{/exp:channel:entries}{/if}
{if embed:my_page_title=="Defence"}{exp:channel:entries channel="meta_data" entry_id="109"}{meta_tag}{/exp:channel:entries}{/if}
{if embed:my_page_title=="Our Clients"}{exp:channel:entries channel="meta_data" entry_id="110"}{meta_tag}{/exp:channel:entries}{/if}
{if embed:my_page_title=="Contact"}{exp:channel:entries channel="meta_data" entry_id="111"}{meta_tag}{/exp:channel:entries}{/if}
{if embed:my_page_title=="News"}{exp:channel:entries channel="meta_data" entry_id="112"}{meta_tag}{/exp:channel:entries}{/if}">
 
<meta name="description" c embed:my_page_title=="Home"}{exp:channel:entries channel="meta_data" entry_id="101"}{meta_description}{/exp:channel:entries}{/if}
{if embed:my_page_title=="About us"}{exp:channel:entries channel="meta_data" entry_id="102"}{meta_description}{/exp:channel:entries}{/if}
{if embed:my_page_title=="Training"}{exp:channel:entries channel="meta_data" entry_id="105"}{meta_description}{/exp:channel:entries}{/if}
{if embed:my_page_title=="Sectors"}{exp:channel:entries channel="meta_data" entry_id="106"}{meta_description}{/exp:channel:entries}{/if}
{if embed:my_page_title=="Energy"}{exp:channel:entries channel="meta_data" entry_id="107"}{meta_description}{/exp:channel:entries}{/if}
{if embed:my_page_title=="Infrastructure"}{exp:channel:entries channel="meta_data" entry_id="108"}{meta_description}{/exp:channel:entries}{/if}
{if embed:my_page_title=="Defence"}{exp:channel:entries channel="meta_data" entry_id="109"}{meta_description}{/exp:channel:entries}{/if}
{if embed:my_page_title=="Our Clients"}{exp:channel:entries channel="meta_data" entry_id="110"}{meta_description}{/exp:channel:entries}{/if}
{if embed:my_page_title=="Contact"}{exp:channel:entries channel="meta_data" entry_id="111"}{meta_description}{/exp:channel:entries}{/if}
{if embed:my_page_title=="News"}{exp:channel:entries channel="meta_data" entry_id="112"}{meta_description}{/exp:channel:entries}{/if}">

    Even writing all this code out didn’t feel like the ideal solution but after reading an article on “chunking” it seemed like this was a suggested solution. This isn’t practical and I was wondering if there is an different way to do this that stops the code limit and is more optimised and realistic.

    Thanks in advance.

  • #2 / Oct 04, 2013 4:41am

    Businessport46

    9 posts

    Anyone, this it causing me big issues and holding up my project :-(

  • #3 / Oct 04, 2013 5:14am

    deswork

    122 posts

    Not sure about your problem, but have you looked at http://devot-ee.com/add-ons/seolite as an alternative?

    Wayne.

  • #4 / Oct 04, 2013 9:41am

    Businessport46

    9 posts

    Not sure about your problem, but have you looked at http://devot-ee.com/add-ons/seolite as an alternative?

    Wayne.

    Thanks for the reply but I’d rather find a way to do this without a plugin, surely it can’t need a plugin to do something so simple?

  • #5 / Oct 04, 2013 11:50am

    Chriiiiso

    46 posts

    You are way over-complicating things.  Let EE do the work.  Just make a channel field for the meta data.  Then you can just fill out each entry as needed and use one tag without conditionals.

  • #6 / Oct 04, 2013 11:51am

    Chriiiiso

    46 posts

    And I second SEO Lite, it works great and is free.  Unless you’re opposed to saving time for some reason.

  • #7 / Oct 10, 2013 5:31am

    Dadonbike

    2 posts

    Here’s a different page/embed approach to ponder, it will make things much easier.

    Think inside out and consider using partials.

    Heres our layout. Template = layout/.default

    <!DOCTYPE html>
    <html lang="en">
     <head>
      <title>{exp:stash:head_title} - LocalYak</title>
      {sn_head}
      {gv_jquery}
      {exp:stash:head_links}
      {gv_google_analytics}
     </head>
     <body>
      {sn_body_top}
      <div id="main_bkgd">
       <div id="main" class="device_{ress} view_{view}">
        {exp:stash:content_above}
        <div id="content" class="{if ress > 1}rounded{/if} {exp:stash:get name='content_class'}">
         {exp:stash:content}
        </div>
        {exp:stash:content_below}
       </div>
      </div>
      {sn_footer}
     </body>
    </html>

    And heres a (page) template that calls and uses that layout.

    {embed="layout/.default"}
    {exp:stash:set name='head_title'}Compare{/exp:stash:set}
    {exp:stash:set name='head_links'}
     <link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' media='screen' href="{stylesheet='advertise/.css_advertise'}" />
     <link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' media='screen' href="{stylesheet='pages/.css_pages'}" />
     <meta name="description" c | Compare LocalYak advertising packages" />
    {/exp:stash:set}
    {exp:stash:set name='content_class'}tab-advertise outline{/exp:stash:set}
    {exp:stash:set name='content'}
     <div class="page_select body_wrap">
      <h1>Compare packages</h1>
      [put your page content here…. or if you are forced to like we did on this occassion, create an extra embed]{embed="advertise/.select_type"}
     </div>
    {/exp:stash:set}

    And if you need to show different content for the page, simply wrap using simple conditional like this

    {if segment_3 == ""}
     {exp:stash:set name='content_class'}category splash{/exp:stash:set}
     {exp:stash:set name='content'}some content or tags{/exp:stash:set}
    {/if}
    {if segment_3 != ""}
     {exp:stash:set name='content_class'}category splash{/exp:stash:set}
     {exp:stash:set name='content'}some different content or tags{/exp:stash:set}
    {/if}

    Our site is mostly built on that one single default layout, however we do use a total of seven layouts. About partials

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