Add if/else Extra Field to showlistings.tpl

Using Designer V4.1.9 with the default template

Hi,

I have setup parent child extra fields for Location (parent field), State and Country (both child fields).

The Extra field names and ID’s for each are as follows:

Location: id 11 (Parent)
State: id 12 (child)
Country: id 13 (child)

I’m trying to ad a single column to the showlistings.tpl to display either the State or the Country and have been unsuccessful using the following code.

Code:

{if {get_extra_field id=$entry.id fid=11} $entry.title==" State"}
<td{if $entry.class<>""} class="{$entry.class}"{/if}>{get_extra_field id=$entry.id fid=12}</td>	
{else}
<td{if $entry.class<>""} class="{$entry.class}"{/if}>{get_extra_field id=$entry.id fid=13}</td>
{/if}

I think the issue is in the first line however I'm not sure what the correct statement should be. Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Thanks for the response Seymourjames.

I tried the following code from the link you provided and using capture worked, however the results always returned for {else} in the showlistings.tpl display.

Code:

{capture name='loc'}
 {get_extra_field id=$entry.id fid=11}
 {/capture}
 {if $smarty.capture.loc=="United States"}
 <td{if $entry.class<>""} class="{$entry.class}"{/if}>{get_extra_field id=$entry.id fid=12}</td>	
 {else}
 <td{if $entry.class<>""} class="{$entry.class}"{/if}>{get_extra_field id=$entry.id fid=13}</td>
 {/if}

The parent extra field named Location, id 11, has two values:
1. United States - sub ID 12
2. International - sub ID 13

I’m not a programmer but it seem as though the line {if $smarty.capture.loc=="United States"} is not working thus resulting in the return of {else}.

Thanks again Seymourjames. Unfortunately tweaking the suggested plug in to get the desired output is beyond my limited programming skills. I do appreciate you trying to help.

I did eventually figure out a simpler solution and am posting it here to close this thread.

Since a user can only select one of the child fields, the unselected field would be blank. I inserted the following code into the template and it seems to be working just fine.

Code:

<td{if $entry.class<>""} class="{$entry.class}"{/if}>{get_extra_field id=$entry.id fid=12}{get_extra_field id=$entry.id fid=13}</td>