Hi!

I can’t believe your if statement works without removing the $ sign of $something. With respect to the other side of the comparison, SS actually don’t handle “longer values”, neither values containing special character as éñç and the such. You should have to code complex comparisons in your page PHP file.

Regards,
Juan

I’m quite bad in PHP, so I cannot help you, but I’m quite sure you can’t make comparisons or pass arguments to functions of the kind you describe.

I hope it helps.

Perhaps going into more detail will help me explain my problem in a real example. first, I'll show what I did to get it working - then what I would prefer to do.

in the controller I have these functions:

   function getProfessors() {
      return DataObject::get( 'FacultyPage', "`FacultyType` = 'Professor'" );
   }

   function getAssociateProfessors() {
      return DataObject::get( 'FacultyPage', "`FacultyType` = 'Associate Professor'");
   }

on the view I have this

   <p>Professors</p>
<% control getProfessors %>
      <p><a href="$Link">$Title</a></p>
<% end_control %>

   <p>Associate Professors</p>
<% control getAssociateProfessors %>
      <p><a href="$Link">$Title</a></p>
<% end_control %>

everything is kosher, but I have many types of professors and not only do I not want to have to write a new function for each one, but I want to be able to handle new kinds without going back to hack my classes. therefore, what I *want* to do is on the controller have this

   function getFaculty($facultytype) {
      return DataObject::get( 'FacultyPage', "`FacultyType` = '$facultytype'" );
   }

and have this on my view

   <p>Professors</p>
<% control getFaculty(Professor) %>
      <p><a href="$Link">$Title</a></p>
<% end_control %>

   <p>Associate Professors</p>
<% control getFaculty(Associate Professor) %>
      <p><a href="$Link">$Title</a></p>
<% end_control %>

note that because the second one is 'associate professor' with a *space* it won't work. is this general type of problem to be solved in another way? I can see it coming up any time I want to sort data on my 'holder' pages.

yes, that would make me very happy!

I've only been using ss for a week now so I'm not going to venture into testing any new code quite yet...