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My templates have a lot of code that needs to look and see if a field is empty or not, and I’m currently trying:

{if '{big-fat-field}' != ''"}{big-fat-field}{/if}

and

{if big-fat-field != ''}{big-fat-field}{/if}

but if the “big-fat-field” has quoted test in it, the conditionals blow with a PHP error in the library/Functions.php eval process as the quotes are not getting converted.  I see in the documentation that the quotes are supposed to auto-removed, but I’m not seeing that consistently happening.  The tech note on that page suggests that “If you are testing against a word, you should enclose the word in single or double-quotes.”  Should I do this with a string?

Alternatively, is there a plugin/feature that I could use that is closer to PHP’s empty or strlen that doesn’t care about string content?

Thanks for any help you can provide,

M.

If the field is either empty or has anything in it you could simplify the conditional:

{if big-fat-field}{big-fat-field}{/if}

...so if there is any content output the value, if not do nothing