Scope issue inside conditional block (I think)

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Can anyone explain why the output of this:

{{ $related := false }}
{{ if .Page.Params.lang }}
Lang set
{{ $related := first 3 (where .Site.Pages “Params.lang” .Page.Params.lang | shuffle ) }}
{{ else if .Page.Params.tags }}
{{ $related := first 3 (.Site.RegularPages.Related .) }}
{{ end }}

{{$related}}

IS

Lang set

false

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As far as I can tell, it’s because $related inside the if is a different variable than the $related outside the if. So you need this inside the if:

{{ $.related = whatever }}

The ‘.’ tells Hugo to look just outside the current scope.

3

No, it does not.

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{{ $foo := 1}}
{{ if true }}
  {{ $foo := 2 }}
{{ end }}
{{ $foo }}

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{{ $foo := 1}}
{{ if true }}
  {{ $foo = 2 }}
{{ end }}
{{ $foo }}

2

See https://golang.org/pkg/text/template/#hdr-Variables

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5

Thanks jmorring. That worked for me.

I have one more question, how can I get this double condition to work?

{{ $langs := "de fr"}}
{{ $related = first 3  (where not in .Params.lang $langs ) (.Site.RegularPages.Related .) }}
6

Assuming your frontmatter contains something like this…

lang = "en"

Then…

{{- $langs := slice "de" "fr" -}}
{{- $related := where (.Site.RegularPages.Related .) "Params.lang" "not in" $langs | first 3 -}}
7

Unfortunately only non english pages have that lang parameter set, so the english pages have no front matter variable for lang. So I can guess instead of checking for the value i should be checking whether it’s set.

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{{- $related := where (.Site.RegularPages.Related .) "Params.lang" nil | first 3 -}}
9

Hmm, that looks like exactly what I need but it’s returning any results. Is nil check for no value or not set or both?

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This will return pages where lang is not set in frontmatter. It will not return pages where lang = "" in frontmatter.

11

OK, not sure why but it’s not working. I don’t have that lang parameter set at all for most of the pages so some should be showing up.

12

I’d be happy to troubleshoot if you provide a link to the public repository for your project. Otherwise, I’d just be guessing…

13

I can’t unfortunately.

Here’s some example front matter for a page that should show:

    ---
title: "Page title"
description:
date: 2020-10-22
draft: false
authors:
- Author Name
resources:
- name: cover
  src: images/image.jpg
  title: "Cover image"
- name: twitterimg
  src: images/image-twitter.jpg
- name: ogimage
  src: images/image-facebook.jpg
tags:
- php
---
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Please share your site configuration file.

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    baseurl: "/"
languageCode: "en-us"
languageLang: "en"
title: ""
buildDrafts: true
buildFuture: true
enableRobotsTXT: false
removePathAccents: true
theme: "hugo-demos"

taxonomies:
  # author: "authors"
  tag: "tags"

imaging:
  quality: 80
  resampleFilter: "gaussian"

DefaultContentLanguage: en

pygmentsCodeFences: true
pygmentsUseClasses: true
pygmentsCodefencesGuessSyntax: true

# Create 301 redirects rather than html meta taxonomies[outputs]
disableAliases: true
outputs:
  home:
    - HTML
    - RSS
    - REDIR
  section:
    - HTML
    - JSON
    - RSS
mediaTypes:
  "text/platform":
    delimiter: ''
outputFormats:
  REDIR:
    mediatype: "text/platform"
    baseName: "redirects.php"
    isPlainText: true
    notAlternative: true

paginate: 30
paginatePath: "page"

markup:
  goldmark:
    renderer:
      unsafe: true
  highlight:
    lineNos: false
    lineNumbersInTable: false
    
minify:
  disableCSS: true
  disableHTML: true
  disableJS: true
  minifyOutput: true
build:
  writeStats: true

related:
  threshold: 90
  includeNewer: true
  toLower: true
  indices:
  - name: tags
    weight: 100
  - name: date
    weight: 40
16

In the site configuration file that you posted above, the first line is indented. If that’s what your site configuration actually looks like, it’s broken.

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jmooring, worked it out, needed to remove the colon as it’s nested inside the if statement

{{- $related := where (.Site.RegularPages.Related .) "Params.lang" nil | first 3 -}}

Should be:

{{- $related = where (.Site.RegularPages.Related .) "Params.lang" nil | first 3 -}}

Thanks for your help :slight_smile:

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