[Trevor Wilcox]

Hi Steve

I don’t think this is something I can do with Connections “out of the box”, but was wondering if there was a way to conditionally test at the individual entry level for a specific category to elicit a certain behavior? For example, I have some Senior Management who have their own category and are all shown first in the general listing… they have their profile pictures shown while other staff, who follow in the listing by ascending order of surname, do not, unless the user is logged in (my site is a membership site). Senior Managers are also interspersed into other categories beyond the Senior Management category however, and when a search is performed (outputted to a different results page using the home_id), their photos are not shown by virtue of the parameters of the shortcode in the results page. My thinking is that if I’m able to conditionally test for the Senior Management category at the template level, then I might be able to get around this.

Appreciate your advice.

[Trevor Wilcox]

It’s 6am here so please excuse any gaps in train of thought :) but here is the rough logic how I envision it could work, and thus even within one shortcode instance I could control if a picture is shown based on the individual entry’s category:

if (cn_show_image = true) {
if (user is logged in) {
show_image
}
} else {
if (cn_category = senior_management) {
show_image
} else {
do not show image
}
}

• This reply was modified 6 years, 1 month ago by Trevor Wilcox.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Trevor

Sure this is doable you would add something like this to the card.php and card-single.php files for the template.

Something like this:

$categories = array();

foreach ( $entry->getCategory() as $category ) {
    $categories[ $category->slug ] = $category->name;
}

if ( true == $atts['show_image'] ) {
    if ( is_user_logged_in() ) {
        // code to display image
    }
} else {
    if ( array_key_exists( 'senior-management', $categories ) ) {
        // code to display image
    } else {
        // I do not think you need this else since it does not do anything.
    }
}

Hope this helps!

[Trevor Wilcox]

Perfect! Thank you!

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