Question

My scenario:

<table>
    <thead>
        <tr>
            <th>Name</th>
            <th>Email</th>
        </tr>
    </thead>
    <tbody>
        {foreach from=$users item=user}
            <tr>
                <td>{$user.name}</td>
                <td>{$user.email}</td>
            </tr>
        {foreachelse}
            There are no users....
        {/foreach}
    </tbody>
</table>

Now when there are no users I have an ugly table, so I’ll add:

{if $users|count > 0}
    <table>
        <thead>
            <tr>
                <th>Name</th>
                <th>Email</th>
            </tr>
        </thead>
        <tbody>
            {foreach from=$users item=user}
                <tr>
                    <td>{$user.name}</td>
                    <td>{$user.email}</td>
                </tr>
            {foreachelse}
                There are no users....
            {/foreach}
        </tbody>
    </table>
{else}
    There are no users....
{/if}

But now my {foreachelse} is useless.

So I delete the {foreachelse} There are no users.... part and conclude that {foreachelse} is useless.

This problem I have in <table>, <ol>, <ul> etc..

Does anyone have a solution so I’m able to use {foreachelse}?

Thanks!

Answer 1

You can have one row which says there are no users, eg:

<table>
    <thead>
        <tr>
            <th>Name</th>
            <th>Email</th>
        </tr>
    </thead>
    <tbody>
        {foreach from=$users item=user}
            <tr>
                <td>{$user.name}</td>
                <td>{$user.email}</td>
            </tr>
        {foreachelse}
            <tr>
                <td colspan="2">There are no users....</td>
            </tr>
        {/foreach}
    </tbody>
</table>

But I can understand it when this is not the desired result.

Sometimes you might use divs in a foreach instead of table or lists contents. Check the smarty documentation on this:
http://www.smarty.net/docs/en/language.function.foreach.tpl