Question

I have a foreach loop code in a tpl file like this:

[{foreach from=$oView->getArticleList() item=actionproduct name=test_articleList}]
[{include file="inc/product_alt.tpl"  product=$actionproduct testid="action_"|cat:$actionproduct->oxarticles__oxid->value test_Cntr=$smarty.foreach.test_articleList.iteration}]
[{/foreach}]

the included file product_alt.tpl in the foreach loop contains a simple div container and get displayed for each product. Now i am looking for a solutions to add to every second div container a extra class.

I google a bit and found out (i think so) that I must work with even and odd. But i stucked how to apply this exactly to the foreach loop with the goal that every secod div container get an extra class.

Answer 1

You are looking for cycle. What you can do for instance is assign an extra $class variable in your include statement, that gets changed by the assign, like so:

 {cycle values='yourClass1,youClass2' assign='class'} 

That’s probably where your odd/even thought comes from: the manual says

 {cycle values='odd,even' assign='class'} 

But those are just values. Anyeay, your variable ‘class’ now has alternating “yourClass1” and “yourClass2” (or odd/even) as content. If you assign this to your include, and then add something like

<div class="{$class}">

You get alternating classes. One of them is the one you want. the other can be empty..

check out the cycle manual: http://www.smarty.net/docsv2/en/language.function.cycle