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interpolate variable into a modifier?

By Rick on Feb 10, 2009 at 5:17 PM 1 Vote 0 Votes

I would like to have a link to all blogs on my toolbar. I want the first (current) blog to have a different css class and to be listed first. So I use the "exclude_blogs" modifier so I don't repeat the current blog link. I would like to write the code in a way that I don't have to hard-code the current blog id (i.e. "2" in this case).

TIA

<div id="nav">
    <div id="nav-inner">
        <ul>
             <li class="home"><a href="<$MTBlogURL$>"><$MTBlogName encode_html="1"$></a></li>
       		<mt:blogs exclude_blogs="2">
            <li><a href="<$MTBlogURL$>"><$MTBlogName encode_html="1"$></a></li>
            </mt:blogs>
            <li><a href="<$mt:Link template="archive_index"$>"><$MTBlogName encode_html="1"$> Archives</a></li>
        </ul>
    </div>
</div>

Reported on Movable Type 4.2

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    Author Profile Page Rick | February 10, 2009 6:02 PM | Reply

    OK, I figured it out. I wasn't sure why mt:setvarblock wasn't working, until I noticed that I hadn't prefixed the variable with "$" inside the modifier. Um, Duh. The code is:


    
<MTSetVarBlock name="current_blog_id" strip_linefeeds="1"><$MTBlogID$></MTSetVarBlock>
    
<div id="nav">
    
    <div id="nav-inner">
    
        <ul>
    
             <li class="home"><a href="<$MTBlogURL$>"><$MTBlogName encode_html="1"$></a></li>
    
       		<mt:blogs exclude_blogs="$current_blog_id">
    
            <li><a href="<$MTBlogURL$>"><$MTBlogName encode_html="1"$></a></li>
    
            </mt:blogs>
    
            <li><a href="<$mt:Link template="archive_index"$>"><$MTBlogName encode_html="1"$> Archives</a></li>
    
        </ul>
    
    </div>
    
</div>

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