OK. Sorry. I’m stupid.

The filter size(input) does the trick: -

{{ collection.products | size }}

At least, I think it will…I can’t really test this using Vision as Liquid doesn’t like the collections I’ve setup in database.yml that have no products as members (it’s throwing “No Method” errors).

Perhaps I’m getting the syntax wrong in database.yml…

In any case I guess it’s time to upload some of my templates to Shopify and do some testing there.

The fact remains: I’m loving Shopify/Liquid/Vision. I’m actually enjoying implementing my design. I’ve never had that happen before with an ecommerce templating system.

Big thanks to Tobi and the other pixels.

Hey Pinballki.

You should be able to use .size everywhere in liquid these days. E.g.

{% if collection.products.size  0 %}
 
Sorry, there are currently no products in this section.
{% else %}
 
There are products on this page.
{% endif %}

This should work as well:

{% if collection.products  empty %}
 
Sorry, there are currently no products in this section.

{% else %}
 
There are products on this page.

{% endif %}

Thanks, Tobi. Makes sense.

Hey Tobi,

I have tried this and get the following error:

Liquid error: undefined local variable or method `name’ for #

My collection.liquid template looks like:

{% paginate collection.products by 9 %}

{% if collection.products empty %}
Sorry, there are currently no products in this section.
{% else %}

<div id="collection-description" class="textile">{{ collection.description }}</div>

{% for product in collection.products %}
<dl class="product">
<dt><a href="{{product.url}}" onclick="return Showroom.showProduct('{{product.handle}}');"><img src="{{ product.featured_image | product_img_url: 'small' }}" /></a><a href="{{product.url}}">{{product.title}}</a></dt>
<dd>{{ product.description | strip_html | truncatewords: 50 }}</dd>
<dd>{{product.price_min | money}}</dd>
<dd><a href="{{product.url}}" onclick="return Showroom.showProduct('{{product.handle}}');">View Details <img src="{{ 'arrow.gif' | asset_url }}" /></a></dd>
</dl>
{% endfor %}

{% endif %}

{% if paginate.pages > 1 %}
<div id="pagination" class="r">
{{ paginate | default_pagination }}
</div>
{% endif %}

{% endpaginate %}

Any idea what that means?

Thanks,
Vernal

hmm this forum eats some of the equal signes ( = )

it should say: {% if collection.products.size == 0 %}