Available Functions & Syntax?

[regack]

So within the templates, I know I've got the IF/ELSEIF/ELSE and FOREACH... are there any other functions available?   I've tried searching, but I... apparently am not good at searching?

Is there a guide I missed that covers the functions & syntax?

I created a series of if/foreach statements to do what I want, and it's working fine, but there should be a way to slim down the logic I could just directly reference the element within the array (my terminology, not necessarily how it's structured) or I knew more about the syntax.

like: $[current_user.custom_field[0].name]
because I know I always want the name from the first item in the list - I could skip the foreach loops...

{if $[current_user.custom_field]}

    {foreach $[current_user.custom_field]}

        {if $[current_user.custom_field.index] == 0 && $[current_user.custom_field.name] == "SETTING"}

            {if $[current_user.custom_field.value] == "VALUE"}
                Thing1
            {/if}

        {elseif $[current_user.custom_field.index] == 0 && $[current_user.custom_field.name] != "SETTING"}

                Thing2
        {/if}

    {/foreach}

{else}

    Thing3
{/if}


It looks like this is also a valid test:
{if !$[current_user.custom_field]}

{/if}

Thanks in advance for any reference material or whatnot!

[₪» ⅀ ƪ Ƒ «₪]

To my knowledge, foreach loops are mandatory for pulling out individual custom profile fields. There is not any shortcut that I'm aware of. You can have a maximum of something like 30 {foreach} loops per template and it is best to try to find a way to consolidate them as much as possible, putting as many needed {if}s as possible within the {foreach}, but I don't believe there is currently a way to skip this -- at least through native ability. Javascript and such always has a different way of handling things, but I'm not experienced in JS and can't advise for that, only for the variables and HTML side of things.

You can use ! for the inverse, yes, as well as == || && and I want to say != but I'm not sure on the last one. I never use it. xD Not many things require a loop -- it is either only profile fields or nearly only. I know it can be really rough. My mini-profile layout template is obnoxious, absolutely obnoxious, and I know finding a way to handle the many {foreach} and {if}s is aggravating and can be confusing, time-consuming, and require a lot of creative workarounds.

If there's something you need specific help with, you can always ask! Like a particular chunk of code that isn't working or you aren't sure how to write.

Pardon me if I misunderstood the OP and I'm sure someone will correct me if I turn out to be wrong :)

[regack]

Sept 10, 2018 10:55:15 GMT -8 ₪» ⅀ ƪ Ƒ «₪ said:

To my knowledge, foreach loops are mandatory for pulling out individual custom profile fields. There is not any shortcut that I'm aware of. You can have a maximum of something like 30 {foreach} loops per template and it is best to try to find a way to consolidate them as much as possible, putting as many needed {if}s as possible within the {foreach}, but I don't believe there is currently a way to skip this -- at least through native ability. Javascript and such always has a different way of handling things, but I'm not experienced in JS and can't advise for that, only for the variables and HTML side of things.

You can use ! for the inverse, yes, as well as == || && and I want to say != but I'm not sure on the last one. I never use it. xD Not many things require a loop -- it is either only profile fields or nearly only. I know it can be really rough. My mini-profile layout template is obnoxious, absolutely obnoxious, and I know finding a way to handle the many {foreach} and {if}s is aggravating and can be confusing, time-consuming, and require a lot of creative workarounds.

If there's something you need specific help with, you can always ask! Like a particular chunk of code that isn't working or you aren't sure how to write.

Pardon me if I misunderstood the OP and I'm sure someone will correct me if I turn out to be wrong

Thanks, I've been working with the {foreach} and it's fine, I was just hoping there might be some additional functions that I couldn't find listed anywhere. Again, thanks for the reply.

[₪» ⅀ ƪ Ƒ «₪]

There is a tutorial on creating themes that one of the very top theme authors wrote, I don't know if it's useful to you but if you'd like to take a look:
adoxographyv2.boards.net/thread/1682/101-on-skin

[Brian]

You've pretty much got all of it down. To give you a comprehensive overview our layout templates support the following control blocks:

{if}
{foreach}
{elseif}
{else}


Which support the following operators:

<
<=
>
>=
==
!=
&&
||


As well as just !$[variable] by itself to do things like this:

{if !$[user.is_online]}
    User is offline
{/if}

{if $[user.is_online]}
    User is online
{/if}

To expand on what ₪» ⅀ ƪ Ƒ «₪ posted you can have a maximum of 500 variables, 500 control blocks, and 30 foreach loops within a single template.

To answer your other question, the layout templates don't currently support picking out a single array index without the use of both a foreach loop and an if statement.