That did it!

Really appreciate your help!

Hello,

I am a newbie and I think that I have the same problem as all of the listed above, although there is a tiny difference.
What I am trying to do is to get a my menu to generate a drop down menu.
So I figured out that this should be done with if statement as to know whether there should be a drop down list or not.

So I came up with this code:

<ul>
<% control Menu(1) %>
<li><a href="$Link" id="menu_$Title" title="$Title">$MenuTitle</a></li>
<% if Children %>
<ul>
<% control Children %>
<li><a href="$Link" title="$Title">$MenuTitle</a></li>
<% end control %>
</ul>
</li>
<% else %>
</li>
<% end_if %>
<% end_control %>
</ul>

Now it shoul dbe working fine but it does not, apparently my <% if Children %> statement is not recognised and causing an error to occur.
As I have said I am totally new to OOP PHP and SilverStripe use, so I don't know if I need to create a class and an object for the Children (I am somewhat ashamed of saying it but that is the truth).

I have also seen people using this: <% if LinkOrSection = section %> but I do not know whether it is related or not.

Can somebody help me please ?

Hi,

What error are you getting?

<% if Children %> should work fine, but you're doing something wrong with the html.

Instead of

<ul>
   <% control Menu(1) %>
      <li><a href="$Link" id="menu_$Title" title="$Title">$MenuTitle</a></li>
         <% if Children %>
               <ul>
                  <% control Children %>
                     <li><a href="$Link" title="$Title">$MenuTitle</a></li>
                  <% end control %>
               </ul>
            </li>
         <% else %>
            </li>
         <% end_if %>
   <% end_control %>   
</ul> 

try

<ul>
   <% control Menu(1) %>
      <li>
            <a href="$Link" id="menu_{$Title}" title="$Title">$MenuTitle</a>
            <% if Children %>
               <ul>
                    <% control Children %>
                    <li><a href="$Link" title="$Title">$MenuTitle</a></li>
                    <% end_control %>
               </ul>
            <% end_if %>
     </li>
   <% end_control %>
</ul>

Don't forget to flush!

Hi,

thanks for helping.
Although I am getting the same error as before:

"Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in C:\WINDOWS\Temp\silverstripe-cacheC--wamp-www-onedoor2\.cacheC..wamp.www.onedoor2.themes.onedoor.templates.Home.ss on line 162"

I do not know which $end it is refering too, even the line numbers are odd.

end control should be end_control that's one thing I see right now that is wrong

Seems that your right and that I am unbelivably blind!
Although I tried once with you version and it did not quite work, I retried it right now and it works just fine!!
Thanks a lot!!

Thank you.