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Hello I am new to PHP and trying to figure out a hack for a Joomla module.

For some reason the ‘else’ statement is not working. I don’t understand why…

        <? if (KRequest::get('get.view', 'string') != 'event'  || isset($module)) : ?>
        <? $desc = $event->description; ?>
        <? $desc = preg_replace("/\{[^\)]+\}/","", $desc) ?>

        <? $desc = substr(strip_tags($desc, '<p><ul><li><b><i><strong><br>'), 0, 180)?>
        <? if (strlen($desc) == 180) $desc .= '...'; ?>
        <div itemprop="description" class="ohanah-event-short-description">
        <?=$desc?>
        </div>
    <? else : ?>
    <!--here is where I want to end it --!>No description.


        <?
        $description = $event->description;

        // Create temporary article
        $item =& JTable::getInstance('content');
        $item->parameters = new JParameter('');
        $item->text = $description;

        $joomlaVersion = JVersion::isCompatible('1.6.0') ? '1.6' : '1.5';
        if ($joomlaVersion == '1.5') { 
            $results = JFactory::getApplication()->triggerEvent('onPrepareContent', array (&$item, &$params, 1));
        } else {
            $dispatcher = JDispatcher::getInstance();
            JPluginHelper::importPlugin('content');
            $results = $dispatcher->trigger('onContentPrepare', array ('com_content.article', &$item, &$params, 1));
        }   
        $description = $item->text;     
        ?>
        <div style="display:none"><span itemprop="name"><?=$event->title?></span></div>
        <div itemprop="description" class="full-description">
        <?=$description?>
        </div>
    <? endif ?>

Answer 1

Braces are wrong. Should be like this (or similar – not sure about where you need $desc):

if (strlen($desc) == 180)
{
    $desc .= '...';
    echo '<div itemprop="description" class="short-description">';
    echo $desc;
    echo '</div>';
}
else
{
    echo 'No description.';
}