Looping through results

#1 / Aug 27, 2012 1:04pm

kev_horan

50 posts

Hi there,

Im trying to find a more elegant way to do the below - with php most likely. Im displaying my results in a royalslider, 9 entries per slide. I’d prefer not to avoid the hard coded approach below, so I was trying to find a way to iterate a variable and reset it every 9 results, but I wasnt having much luck.

Any insight/help would be much appreciated.

Kevin

{exp:channel:entries channel="channel_name" limit="90" sort="asc" disable="member_data|trackbacks"}                          
{if count == '1' OR count == '10' OR count == '19' OR count == '28' OR count == '37' OR count == '46' OR count == '55' OR count == '64' OR count == '73' OR count == '82' }
     <li class="royalSlide"> 
            <div class="centeredSlide clearfix">
{/if}         
             <div class="item">             
              <a href="http://{path=lorem/ipsum/detail/{url_title}}">_{exp:ce_img:pair src="{preview_image:url}" width="116" height="110" crop="yes"}{made}{/exp:ce_img:pair}_              </a>
              <div class="copy">
               {media_type}
               <h4><a href="http://{path=lorem/ipsum/detail/{url_title}}">{title} <?php echo($read_count); ?></a></h4>
<p>              </div> <br />
             </div>  <br />
{if count == '9' OR count == '18' OR count == '27' OR count == '36' OR count == '45' OR count == '54' OR count == '63' OR count == '72' OR count == '82' OR count == '90' }<br />
               </div><br />
           </li><br />
{if:elseif count == total_results}           <br />
               </div><br />
           </li><br />
{/if}

#2 / Aug 27, 2012 1:29pm

John St-Amand

865 posts

Switch variable to the rescue:

{exp:channel:entries channel="channel_name" limit="90" sort="asc" disable="member_data|trackbacks"}
{!-- open royalSlide at the beginning of each grouping of 9 entries --}                   
{switch="<li class='royalSlide'><div class='centeredSlide clearfix'>||||||||"}
      
             <div class="item">             
              <a href="http://{path=lorem/ipsum/detail/{url_title}}">_{exp:ce_img:pair src="{preview_image:url}" width="116" height="110" crop="yes"}{made}{/exp:ce_img:pair}_              </a>
              <div class="copy">
               {media_type}
               <h4><a href="http://{path=lorem/ipsum/detail/{url_title}}">{title} <?php echo($read_count); ?></a></h4>
<p>              </div> <br />
             </div>  <br />
{!-- close royalSlide at the END of each grouping of 9 entries --}<br />
{if count != total_results}{switch="||||||||</div></li>{!-- /close after each 9 entries --}"}{/if}<br />
{!-- in the event that the last grouping did not end on an even 9 entries, we close the loop here after the last entry --}<br />
{if count == total_results}</div></li>{/if}

I believe that should work for you, no PHP needed.

#3 / Aug 27, 2012 2:43pm

kev_horan
50 posts

Thanks John - thats perfect. Much appreciated…
#4 / Aug 27, 2012 2:47pm

John St-Amand
865 posts

You’re very welcome. The switch variable is so often used for doing nothing more than dropping in a CSS class or something that uses like this are often forgotten.

Cheers.

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