[Plugin: WordPress Download Monitor] Hide if no downloads

  • betadog

    (@betadog)


    13 years, 5 months 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?

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  • Mike

    (@jolley_small)

    13 years, 5 months 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.

    Thread Starter betadog

    (@betadog)

    13 years, 5 months 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?

    Mike

    (@jolley_small)

    13 years, 5 months ago

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

    if (!strstr($check_dl, ‘href’)) {

    }

    Thread Starter betadog

    (@betadog)

    13 years, 4 months ago

    Yes, I like that better. Thanks a bunch!

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