Liquid Wiki Wrong?

shopcora — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:49:26 +0000

I was using this example from the wiki:

{% if user.name == 'tobi' or if user.name == 'marc' %} 
  hi marc or tobi
{% endif %}

After changing it to fit my needs I received an error.

However when modifying it to this (taking out the second “if”) it worked as expected:

{% if user.name == 'tobi' or user.name == 'marc' %} 
  hi marc or tobi
{% endif %}

So is the wiki wrong? I didn’t want to change it myself b/c I have little to no programming/liquid knowledge and wanted to double check.

tobi commented

tobi — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:22:29 +0000

The syntax is correct but Shopify does not export a user variable. This example was just for demonstration purposes.

shopcora commented

shopcora — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:41:52 +0000

Hey Tobi,

Maybe I was vague when posting originally….but what I meant was I took that example from the wiki and used that as my basis in doing this…


{% if collection.handle == 'dresses' or if collection.handle == 'under-20' %} 

sample content

{% endif %}

It didn’t work though…I got some sort of liquid operation error. I then took out the second “if” (if collection.handle == ‘under-20’%} ) and the “or” statement worked as expected. See below:


{% if collection.handle == 'dresses' or collection.handle == 'under-20' %} 

sample content

{% endif %}

So that made me think the wiki example was wrong. Who knows maybe I’m just going crazy.

Christina commented

Christina — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:14:27 +0000

no you’re right; the wiki is somewhat outdated.

Caroline Schnapp commented

Caroline Schnapp — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:05:37 +0000

Oh great!

Thank you, Kaushal. I was wondering what I was doing wrong. I put an extra ‘if’ there: http://forums.shopify.com/categories/2/posts/20554#comment-20558. I will go correct my Liquid code.

Please correct the Wiki, Tobi. Or is there a way we can edit the Wiki ourselves? :-)

tobi commented

tobi — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:09:43 +0000

Wiki’s are all about user editing :-)

You just have to signup for an account. We had to disable anonymous editing because of all the spam…

Caroline Schnapp commented

Caroline Schnapp — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:10:23 +0000

Kaushal,

What third-party solution are you using for comments on your blog? It does not look this other solution that’s endorsed by Shopify: http://www.haloscan.com/features.php

Caroline Schnapp commented

Caroline Schnapp — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:10:53 +0000

Let me do the honor then, my dear Tobi. :-)

Caroline Schnapp commented

Caroline Schnapp — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:12:39 +0000

this other solution that’s endorsed by Shopify

Endorsed is a strong word. Maybe recommended, nudged toward.

Caroline Schnapp commented

Caroline Schnapp — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:16:14 +0000

You just have to signup for an account. We had to disable anonymous editing because of all the spam…

I signed up and corrected the errors. :-)

tobi commented

tobi — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:29:30 +0000

thank you very much :-)

shopcora commented

shopcora — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 01:15:46 +0000

Hey Caroline, the blog on our site is actually a wordpress blog hosted on another server with a different domain name (coraboutique.com/blog)

Caroline Schnapp commented

Caroline Schnapp — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 02:53:13 +0000

Thank you, Kaushal, for getting back to me on this.