[ozzy47]

Excellent, glad you got it sorted.

[Protonus]

TL;DR - how can I display a multi line textbox custom profile field, with line breaks preserved, in the postbit?

I've got a Multi Line Text Box, custom profile field, that I would like to display in my legacy postbit. I'm using this code from the OP:

<vb:if condition="$post['fieldx']"><dt>My FieldX</dt> <dd>{vb:raw post.fieldx}</dd></vb:if>

And it works great! But it doesn't respect line breaks, that users entered into this profile field, which makes it look really weird when you have more than one item listed.

I found a post mentioning this:

Multiple Line Text Boxes

While I don't recommend displaying these in the postbit as they can contain a large amount of information, they are done in the exact same way as the single line text box.

Note: The text entered will display all on one line, not in multiple lines as added to the text box and displayed in the profile page.

But... no mention on how to fix it? Thanks in advance!

[Lynne]

You'd have to look at the array and put line feeds between the items. I haven't ever needed to look into this, so I can't offer a solution to you.

[kh99]

You might try:

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but I haven't tried it myself.

[Protonus]

Originally Posted by kh99

You might try:

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but I haven't tried it myself.

Thank you for the suggestion! It DOES preserve the line breaks now, however, it also doesn't word wrap now, which means it allows long lines to spill into the post area from the postbit. Doh!

So, close, but I had to roll back due to the spill over issue.

[DreadsUK]

oh man im so shit at this lol

ok, so vB4.2.2 and editing in postbit template

The field i've created is gender with 2 options male or female.



Here is the code i've got in there. Its not working and i bet one of you guys will take 1 look and it will be so obvious lol

[Lynne]

It's "field7", not "Field7".

[DreadsUK]

<vb:if condition="$post['field7']"><dt>Gender</dt> <dd>{vb:raw post.field7}</dd></vb:if>

Not working

[Mark.B]

Take off the conditionals so you just have this:

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Does anything show up now?

This is really a test that you are editing the correct template in the correct style, since now, even if your field id was wrong you should at least see "Gender" in the postbit.

[Lynne]

Are you sure the poster has even set the gender in their profile?

[DreadsUK]

Originally Posted by Lynne

Are you sure the poster has even set the gender in their profile?

Yea, the poster is me hehe. good question tho

--------------- Added 02 May 2014 at 19:38 ---------------

AHHHH, i was editing

'postbit' not 'postbit_legacy'

[Mark.B]

Originally Posted by Mark.B

This is really a test that you are editing the correct template

Originally Posted by DreadsUK

AHHHH, i was editing

'postbit' not 'postbit_legacy'

The old ones are the best.

[jagtpf]

Have been trying to use method 2 ...

This works >>>>

if ($post[field40])
{
$ImagePath = vB_Template_Runtime::fetchStyleVar('imgdir_misc').'/critique/nocritique.png';
$template_hook['postbit_userinfo_right_after_posts'] .=
'<br /><dt>Critique Level</dt><br /> <dd><img src="' . $ImagePath . '"/></dd>';
}

Yielding both Critique Level: and an image.


Adding conditional doesn't, if there is just one conditional I get Critique Level: and a broken image link; the only difference is the "& 4" - If I use with three conditionals I get 3 * Critique Level: s and 3 broken image links .... It also seems as though it is ignoring the "if" statement because it shows on every profile.>>>>

if ($post[field40])
{
if ($post[field40] & 4)
$ImagePath = vB_Template_Runtime::fetchStyleVar('imgdir_misc').'/critique/nocritique.png';
$template_hook['postbit_userinfo_right_after_posts'] .=
'<br /><dt>Critique Level</dt><br /> <dd><img src="' . $ImagePath . '"/></dd>';
}

I can hazard a guess that using three conditionals there could be a confusion over $ImagePath, but surely it should work with just the one condition ?

I'm missing something rather simple I think ?!

[Lynne]

You need some parenthesis after your second condition (why are you using a second one anyway?).

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[jagtpf]

Not too sure what you mean by "why am I using a second condition...."

I'm following your method 2 :

if ($post['fieldx'])
{
$template_hook['postbit_userinfo_right_after_posts'] .= '<dt>My FieldX</dt> <dd>';

if ($post['fieldx'] & 1) $template_hook['postbit_userinfo_right_after_posts'] .= 'Your 1rst option';
if ($post['fieldx'] & 2) $template_hook['postbit_userinfo_right_after_posts'] .= 'Your 2nd option';
if ($post['fieldx'] & 4) $template_hook['postbit_userinfo_right_after_posts'] .= 'Your 3rd option';
if ($post['fieldx'] & 8) $template_hook['postbit_userinfo_right_after_posts'] .= 'Your 4th option';
if ($post['fieldx'] & 16) $template_hook['postbit_userinfo_right_after_posts'] .= 'Your 5th option';

$template_hook['postbit_userinfo_right_after_posts'] .= '</dd>';
}

but for 3 conditions. But even ignoring the conditional, I can't get a true result from conditional statement for any of ; ($post[field40] & 1), ($post[field40] & 2) or ($post[field40] & 4), whilst I can from ($post[field]).

[field40] contains 3 radio buttons.

Looks like I need to keep hammering at it ....