Post Index ID

eesty

The templating system allows for some variables to be use when looping through posts in a topic.

For example, @first, @last

<!-- BEGIN posts -->
<!-- IF @first -->
  <h1>Main Author: {posts.username}</h1>
<!-- ENDIF @first -->
{posts.content}
<!-- IF @last -->
  End of posts. Click here to scroll to the top.
<!-- ENDIF @last -->
<!-- END posts -->

The BenchpressJS documentation says that @index @key and @value are available too.
Indeed when you print out @index it will show the index of the post DISPLAYED in the topic, with 0 being the first post displayed on the page.

I'm trying to create a modification to my template so that some HTML is displayed after the second post. Therefore my logic would be:


<!-- IF @index == 1 -->
 Some HTML Goes here
<!-- ENDIF @index == 1  -->

It seems that these kind of conditionals can't be used.
So what would be a way to get HTML to render after the Nth post in a topic page (with pagination enabled).

julian

@eesty mm... that's difficult to say. As you've discovered, you can do {{{if @first}}} and correspondingly {{{if !@first}}} (also @last), but more complicated logic is not possible.

Why? Because elimination of more complex logic is what makes Benchpress so fast!

It looks like you'll want to use a helper to achieve this... but just in case there is a way, I'm going to ping @Pitaj.

PitaJ

Yeah so essentially what you want is to do is create an equals template helper, here are a couple resources from the past:

https://community.nodebb.org/topic/11406/how-can-i-print-out-a-specific-array-entry-in-my-template

https://community.nodebb.org/topic/3554/how-to-create-and-use-a-template-helper/9

And the benchpress docs

https://github.com/benchpressjs/benchpressjs/blob/master/docs/readme.md