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Will Radius ever support if/else statements?

Arik Jones wrote:
> Will Radius ever support if/else statements?
>   
I'd love to hear John and Sean's latest thoughts on this.  I've often
felt that this was one of the main weak areas of Radius (and why there
are now several <r:if_misc_stuff> tags to fill the void).

In the meantime, I have an extension that I developed to test this
functionality (actually both conditionals and variable declarations).
John has encouraged me to put it out there for more people to
try/critique but I wanted to split the two functionalities up first (it
was just a proof of concept for me).

Anyway, it is pretty usable (though it could use some lovin).  You can
get it here:
https://secure.svnrepository.com/s_swanki/open/radiant/extensions/vars_if/trunk/

Also, there is the Backdoor extension which basically opens up ERB into
your tags so you can use all of ruby's goodness within your tags.  It
also addresses the need for <r:if> tagging.


-Chris

Speaking of code, the radiant admin page textareas could use some sort 
of tab-enabled feature so I can indent my heavily-dynamic (tons of 
indented code) pages. I've implemented this with decent results in every 
browser except the most recent betas of Firefox 3.


Chris Parrish wrote:
> Arik Jones wrote:
>> Will Radius ever support if/else statements?
>>   
> I'd love to hear John and Sean's latest thoughts on this.  I've often
> felt that this was one of the main weak areas of Radius (and why there
> are now several <r:if_misc_stuff> tags to fill the void).
> 
> In the meantime, I have an extension that I developed to test this
> functionality (actually both conditionals and variable declarations).
> John has encouraged me to put it out there for more people to
> try/critique but I wanted to split the two functionalities up first (it
> was just a proof of concept for me).
> 
> Anyway, it is pretty usable (though it could use some lovin).  You can
> get it here:
> https://secure.svnrepository.com/s_swanki/open/radiant/extensions/vars_if/trunk/
> 
> Also, there is the Backdoor extension which basically opens up ERB into
> your tags so you can use all of ruby's goodness within your tags.  It
> also addresses the need for <r:if> tagging.
> 
> 
> -Chris

On May 1, 2008, at 9:16 PM, Arik Jones wrote:
> Speaking of code, the radiant admin page textareas could use some sort
> of tab-enabled feature so I can indent my heavily-dynamic (tons of
> indented code) pages. I've implemented this with decent results in  
> every
> browser except the most recent betas of Firefox 3.

That sounds very interesting. Finish it off and send us a patch.

--
John Long
http://wiseheartdesign.com