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1. betadog
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I am trying to completely hide a <div> that contains my downloads when there are no downloads.

   In my <div> I only show downloads with certain tags like this:

   $dl = '[downloads query="tags=blue,big"]';
   $dl = apply_filters('the_content', $dl);
   echo $dl;

   So, to hide this <div> when there are no matching downloads I thought I'd use something like this:

   $check_dl = get_downloads('query="tags=blue,big"'');
   if ( '' != $check_dl ) {
   $dl = '[downloads query="tags=blue,big"]';
   $dl = apply_filters('the_content', $dl);
   echo $dl;
   }

   Unfortunately, that does not work. Any ideas?

2. Mike
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   You can get the output of the shortcode using the do_shortcode() function - then you can use what that returns to check if there are any.

3. betadog
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Thanks, Mike, I've tried that and after some trial and error I came up with this - amazingly enough it seems to work:

   $check_dl = do_shortcode('[downloads query="tags=blue,big"]');
   if ( '<ul class="dlm_download_list"><li>[Keine Downloads gefunden]</li></ul>' != $check_dl ) {
   (...)

   Now, I am no programmer - but this code has MacGuyver written all over it, no? Is there a bette way to do this?

4. Mike
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   You could check for a link perhaps instead? When there are no results there are no links output.

   if (!strstr($check_dl, 'href')) {

   }

5. betadog
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Yes, I like that better. Thanks a bunch!

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