<TMPL_IF [VAR]=[value]>, does this exist?

[Bill Robinson]

Hi all,

I have RTFM'd and believe the answer is "No; However, I wanted to confirm that this was true.  Is it present and I am missing it? Or is there a way to do something like it, that I am not catching on to?

Sincerely,
Sifmole

[Andrey Melnikov]

I don't think that we are going to make something like CFML. So we should avoid any logic in the templates. The solution is to make a set of boolean template variables manually:

$template->param( xxx_a => ($xxx eq 'a') )

or something like this

[Conny Brunnkvist]

In most cases (when the data source is trusted) why not simply assign the value you want to check to a boolean:

$xxx='a';
$template->param( $xxx => 1 );

and have the template do:
<TMPL_IF a>print something</TMPL_IF>
<TMPL_IF b>print something else</TMPL_IF>

OVERKILL or perhaps a last resort, is to make a nested IF-ELSE statement, or if you think it gets more readable, a nested UNLESS-ELSE!!:

<TMPL_UNLESS alpha>
    <TMPL_UNLESS bravo>
        <TMPL_UNLESS charley>
            This is the default!
        <TMPL_ELSE>
            This is for charley!
        </TMPL_UNLESS>
    <TMPL_ELSE>
        This is for bravo!
    </TMPL_UNLESS>
<TMPL_ELSE>
    This is for alpha!
</TMPL_UNLESS>

;-D