How do I create conditions, to control where something appears

Question

HI

How do I create conditions, to control where something appears in my layer, like :

is_post

is_page

is_category

is_search

...

Comments

It's not quite clear to me what you're asking here. Do you mean how such checks would be implemented? Or what you would need to evaluate in such a check? Also, layers are similar to themes in that they extend the class qa_html_theme_base and override methods of the base class where needed. I don't see how the conditions you mention would factor into that.

Bottom line: I suspect this might be an X-Y problem, so please elaborate on what you're actually trying to accomplish by doing this.

Answer 1

You can use  $this->template  to create conditions for different types of pages, much like WordPress.

if ($this->template == 'question') {
    // DO SOMETHING
}

Conditions:

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$this->template == 'ask'                          // Ask Page
$this->template == 'qa'                           // Homepage / Q&A Page
$this->template == 'activity'                  // Activity Page
$this->template == 'questions'             // Questions List Page
$this->template == 'hot'                          // Hot Page
$this->template == 'unanswered'        // Unanswered Page
$this->template == 'tags'                       // Tags Page
$this->template == 'categories'           // Categories Page
$this->template == 'users'                     // Users List Page

Single Pages:

$this->template == 'question'              // Single Question Page
$this->template == 'custom'                // Single Page
$this->template == 'search'                  // Search Result Page
$this->template == 'user'                      // Single User Page

Page templates are rendered as a body class in the DOM. You can inspect element to check for other page templates.