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Hi,

I have a template like this:
(I enabled “Display SQL Queries” and “Display Template Debugging?” options to see what’s happening.)

{if segment_4}
TESTING SEGMENT 4
{/if}

{if segment_4 == "" && segment_3 != ""}
TESTING SEGMENT 3
{exp:weblog:entries weblog="myweblog" url_title="{segment_3}" status="open" disable="member_data|trackbacks|categories|category_fields|pagination" dynamic="off"}
<div id="article">
<h1>{title}</h1>
{body}
</div>
{/exp:weblog:entries}
{/if}

If I have an url like this -> http://www.domain.com/seg1/seg2/seg3/seg4/

I expect to see just “TESTING SEGMENT 4” and “exp:weblog:entries” tag in the second condition should not be executed.

RESULT: I see only “TESTING SEGMENT 4” as expected but the tag in the second condition is being executed.

What am I doing wrong?

Are the conditionals only for displaying tag outputs?

Or is it the parse order?

What should I do so that only the contents of “TRUE” condition will be executed?

Thanks

p.s.
Version: 1.6.6 - Build: 20081212

Try this:

{if segment_4}
TESTING SEGMENT 4

{if:elseif segment_3}
TESTING SEGMENT 3
{exp:weblog:entries weblog="myweblog" url_title="{segment_3}" status="open" disable="member_data|trackbacks|categories|category_fields|pagination" dynamic="off"}
<div id="article">
<h1>{title}</h1>
{body}
</div>
{/exp:weblog:entries}
{/if}

Thank you, but it does not help, I’ve already tested it.

Template Debugging says:
...Parsing Tags in Template

and all the tags in a template will be processed.
The conditionals have no effect.

If this is really the behaviour, I can even stop using EE.
I do not want to use tons of embeds which is not good for performance.

I hope there is an answer to this.
I habe been waiting since last night.

Thank you again.

Erdal, what is the reasoning behind what you’re trying to do? It might be easier to figure out a solution if we knew what the end result is.

Hi Sue,

what i am trying to do is not really complex. It is described above.
I have some logic in my template depending on the segments:
If there are 4 segments do this
If there are 3 segments do that
If there are 2 segments do ...
and so on

The first segment is the name of the weblog and template-group.
The others are entries in that weblog.

What I want to learn is the behaviour of the EE in this case:
“All” the tags will be processed in a template whether they are in a “TRUE” condition or not.
Is this correct?

This is what i understand from the results of debugging.
You can easily test this. The template is really not complicated.

As an experienced programmer I need this for lots of use cases, not only for this one.
I expect that only the tags in the condition which TRUE to be executed.
Let’s say there are 4 conditions in a template which only one of them can be TRUE at a time.
But if at each request all the tags of all conditions will be processed, you end up with lots of unnecessary queries.

If this is the case I must think about the whole software architecture.

I really want to understand the behaviour of EE in this case.

Thanks

The way that EE works normally is for the third segment to hold the url_title of an entry. The fourth segment isn’t usually used for additional entries.

As an example, let’s use a t-shirt.

http://example.com/index.php/tshirt/order/sunset-tshirt/xxl/long-sleeve

tshirt is the first segment, the template group name
order is the template, second segment.
sunset-tshirt is the weblog entry.
xxl is a modifier for the sunset-tshirt for the size, (segment_4)
long-sleeve is another modifier for sunset-tshirt in segment_5.

But what you’re asking for I’ll go find out.

Hi Sue,

thank you for the answer.

I know how EE normally works.
Because of this I have “dynamic=“off” in my “exp:weblog:entries” tags.

What I am asking is totally different.

Give this a try:

{if segment_4 == ""}
{if segment_3 != ""}
TESTING SEGMENT 3

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="default_site" limit="7" dynamic="off"}
<h3>{title}</h3>
<p>{summary}<br />
<hr><br />
{body}<br />
{/exp:weblog:entries}<br />
{/if} <br />
{/if}

Thanks it works!

I think this sentence of the documentation is the explanation:
NOTE: Advanced Conditionals are evaluated after all EE tags are parsed.

{if segment_4 == ""}
{if segment_3 != ""}
TEST 3
{/if}
{/if}

is not equal to

{if segment_4 == "" && segment_3 != ""}
TEST 3
{/if}

The second one has advance conditionals.

I hope there are not lots of people using this falsely as I did.
As I said before the output is always correct but lots of queries are being processed at the background.

Thank you again.

Oh those evil parse order things 😉 . Looks like Sue got you squared away though.

Please don’t hesitate to post again as needed.