MTEntryIfComments 2.0

January 8, 2003 - updated February 8, 2006 (Download)

MovableType has conditional tags that are true when entries and pings are enabled. The following tags allow you to test whether comments or pings exist.

• MTEntryIfComments
  
  A conditional tag that is true if the current entry has one or more (or a specific number of) comments. Useful if you want to add content before/after a list of comments only if the list is not empty, or if you want to display different text based on the number of comments.

  The tag supports the following attributes:

  • count_greater_than=”n”
    Condition is true if the entry has more than n comments. The default value is count_greater_than=”0”
  • count_less_than=”n”
    Condition is true if the entry has fewer than n comments. Overrides the count_greater_than attribute.
  • count_equals=”n”
    Condition is true if the entry has exactly n comments. Overrides the count_less_than attribute.
• MTEntryIfPings
  
  A conditional tag that is true if the current entry has one or more (or a specific number of) pings.

  This tag supports the same attributes as MTEntryIfComments.
  

• MTEntryIfCommentsPings
  
  A conditional tag that is true if the current entry has one or more (or a specific number of) pings and comments.

  This tag supports the same attributes as MTEntryIfComments.
  

Examples

Example: To display “No comments”, “1 comment” or “x comments” based on the number of comments:

<MTEntryIfComments count_equals="0">No comments</MTEntryIfComments>
<MTEntryIfComments count_equals="1">1 comment</MTEntryIfComments>
<MTEntryIfComments count_greater_than="1"><MTEntryCommentCount> comments</MTEntryIfComments>

Example: To enclose a list of comments with a div tag only if the list is empty:

<MTEntryIfComments>
<div class="comment-block">
<MTComments>
<div class="comments-body">
<$MTCommentBody$>
</div>
</MTComments>
</div>
</MTEntryIfComments>

If two comments are present, this will generate:

<div class="comment-block">
<div class="comments-body">
<p>This is a comment</p>
</div>
<div class="comments-body">
<p>This is another comment</p>
</div>
</div>

If there are no comments present, nothing, not even the <div class=”comment-block”> tags won’t be generated.

• Version 2.0 - Oct 23 2003
  Added MTEntryIfPings and MTEntryIfCommentsPings tags.
• Version 1.1 - Jan 26 2003
  Added count_equals, count_less_than and count_greater_than attributes.
• Version 1.0 - Jan 8 2003
  Initial release.