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Nested switchee, matrix and playa

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cbad

Posted: 31 January 2012 08:48 PM

Hi Mark-

I’ve got a case where a nested switchee and all its tags are just getting output as text, rather than getting parsed. It’s a bit of a complicated scenario so that may be it.

Basically, I’m setting a stash variable for some content inside a matrix row which has a playa field in it. The nested switchee is inside the playa field. Here’s the code:

{stash:section-page-content}
 {sp-items-matrix}
 {exp:switchee variable="{pi-type}" parse="inward"}
  {case value="topics"}
   {pi-items-playa}

    <div class="{switch='topic-row showleft|topic-row'}">
     {switchee variable="{spt-media-type}" parse="inward"}
     {case value="image"}
     <h2>{spt-media-type}</h2>
     {/case}
     {case value="zoom"}
     <h2>{spt-media-type}</h2>
     {/case}
     {/switchee}
    </div> <!-- topic-row -->
  
   {/pi-items-playa}
  {/case}
 {/exp:switchee}
 {/sp-items-matrix}
 {/stash:section-page-content} 

Here’s what the output for the switchee looks like (unstyled of course):

{switchee variable="zoom" parse="inward"} {case value="image"}
zoom
{/case} {case value="zoom"}
zoom
{/case} {/switchee} 

I can handle everything for this situation using {if}s, but If there is something wrong with my approach I’d like to know it. I have successfully used nested switchee statments in the past.

Thanks!

Mark Croxton

Posted: 01 February 2012 10:01 AM

# 1

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I expect it’s a parse order thing - the content inside the Playa tag pairs are not processed immediately, they get replaced with a standalone Playa tag with the same content inside. Could be that by that point the inner switchee tags are exposed in the document root. Difficult to say without a lot of testing.

You could always use if/else instead of the inner switchee and wrap with my ifelse plugin.

EDIT: are you using parse_tags=“yes” on the outer Stash tag with a depth > 1 ?