I am currently working on a one page website. I have customized the homepage template for that. This page has different sections. For one section it should display the time and dates of a band performance. I created a new template (PerformancePage.ss) for this and created a loop in the HomePage.ss.

<% loop $Children %>
<% include PerformancePage %>
<% end_loop %>

This works perfectly fine, but what it might occur that there are no performances. I thought I could do this by looking at the performance date. When $Performance_Date > Today it should display the performance, ELSE it should display a custom message.
I tried this on the PerformancePage.ss

<!-- Performance Starts -->
<% if $Performance_Name == "test1" && $Performance_Date > DateTodayValue %>
<div class="col-md-3 col-sm-6 single-pricing-wrap center animated" data-animation="bounceInLeft" data-animation-delay="500">
<div class="single-pricing">
<div class="pricing-head">
<h4 class="pricing-heading color-scheme">$Performance_Name</h4>
<div class="price">
<h3> $Performance_Date </h3>
</div>
</div>
<ul class="package-features">
<li><span class="color-scheme fa fa-clock-o"></span>Tijd: $Performance_Start_Time - $Performance_End_Time uur</li>
</ul>
<div class="sign-up"> <a href="$Performance_Link" target="_blank" class="fancy-button button-line btn-col zoom"> Koop tickets <span class="icon"> <i class="fa fa-ticket"></i> </span> </a> </div>
</div>
</div>
<% else %>
There are currently no performances
<% end_if %>
<!-- Performance Ends -->

I tested it by populating the $Performance_Name value with “test1” and it did not work. Ideally it should look at the $Performance_Date. But I don’t know how I can do this.

Can anyone help me with this?

Thank you!

Wesley

I'm not quite sure how you've set this up - is it so that one of your HomePage's children is a performance page, representing one performance? Or are there multiple PerformancePages, each a child of your HomePage? Or are performances DataObjects linked to a performancepage that in turn is a child of HomePage?

I think I would need more info :)

Hi Martimiz,

The setup is as follows:

Directory: mysite/code/HomePage.php
Directory: mysite/code/PerformancePage.php
Directory: themes/themename/HomepagePage.ss
Directory: themes/themename/PerformancePage.ss

So under Main directory HomePage.ss I currently have 4 childeren (4x PerformancePage.ss)

And PerformancePage.ss has code that I was referring to.

Sorry for not being clear the first time and thank you in advance for your help. :)

Wesley

Supposing 'Performance_Date' is a Date field, have you tried something like <% if $Performance_Date > $Now %>

Thank you Martimiz. This is almost showing me the behavior that I was expecting. Do you happen to know if I can add these conditions to the loop in the HomePage.ss

For Example:

<% loop $Children %>
<% if $Date > $Now %>
<% include PerformancePage %>
<% else %>
There are currently no performances
<% end_if %>
<% end_loop %>

When I add this.It works but somehow it is then showing two performance items that have date > Now and the "There are currently no performances" message. I am almost there but I think I am missing something.

Thanks again!

Wesley

That's because you check the date for each child, and everytime a child is too old, you generate that message. What you would probably want is to loop a set of valid performances only instead of all Children, and if there are none, display your message.

So for instance in your Homepage controller something like:

public function getValidPerformances() 
{
    return PerformancePage::get()
        ->filter(array('Performance_Date:GreaterThan' => date('Y-m-d')))
        ->sort('Performance_Date ASC');
}

And then in your template:

<% if $ValidPerformances %>
    <% loop $ValidPerformances %>
       <% include PerformancePage %>
    <% end_loop %>
<% else %>
    There are currently no performances 
<% end_if %>

Of course, if your homepage has other children besides PerformancePages, this setup will still need some tweaking :)

Hi Martimiz,

This is exactly what I was looking for. This works like a charm.

Thank you very very much! You don't have an idea how long I have been struggling with this :)

Wesley