On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 14:21:45 -0500 (EST), Amanda Hemmerich
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ok, I am starting a new job and learning a new person's code, and trying
> to learn Smarty at the same time.
>
> This question is so basic, but I have no idea where to look for an answer.
>
> ANyway, I need to change the code so that, when there are no row returned
> by the database, a message is displayed saying, "There are no events
> scheduled." or what have you.
>
> Now, the way I would have done this before using smarty would be to check
> the number of records, and if there were none, I would display the
> message, otherwise, I would loop through and display the results,
>
> However, I know one of the points of smarty is to keep code out of the
> presentation layer, so I don't want to go into the template and add an if
> statement in there.
>
> Any help directing me to an example or whatever would be helpful.
>
> Here is what is going on right now in the code:
>
> (in the PHP page)
> $events = $db->getAll($sql_events, DB_FETCHMODE_ASSOC);
> $tpl->assign("events",$events);
>
> (in the template page)
> {section name=id loop=$events}
> <tr>
> <td class="event">
> <b>{$events[id].type}</b>: <a class="menulink"
> href="{$url_prefix}/community/events/?id={$events[id].id}">{$events[id].date|date_format:"%B
> %e, %Y"}, {$events[id].speaker}</a><br />
> {$events[id].title}
> </td>
> </tr>
> {/section}
>
My solution to this would be to change the template. IMHO it's a
"view" funciton to display something different when there is no data.
However, if you're averse to that, I would suggest using a different template.
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