Twig Components / Twig tags

for¶

This tag is used to iterate over arrays or collections of an object, similar to foreach in PHP.

<h3>Recent pages</h3>
{% setcontent pages = 'pages' limit 5 order '-datecreated' %}
<ul>
  {% for page in pages %}
    <li><a href="{{ page|link }}">{{ page.title }}</a></li>
  {% else %}
    <p>No recent pages.</p>
  {% endfor %}
</ul>

See: for in the Twig documentation.

setcontent¶

The setcontent tag is used to perform various queries on the database. It converts a human-readable query to actual records.

Much, much more information about the setcontent tag, together with additional query arguments, pagination, sorting and other options you can find in the chapter about Fetching content.

These queries are currently possible:

• entry/12 - get entry with id 12
• page/about - get page with slug about
• animal/search/5 - search for animals and return 5 of them (use where parameter 'filter' to specify search string)
• (animal,plant) - fetch records for animals and plants

{% setcontent about = 'page/about' %}

<h3>{{ about.title }}</h3>
{{ about.introduction|raw }}

<a href="{{ about|link }}">link</a>

switch¶

The switch tag implements a switch statement, like the one present in PHP and many other programming languages. It allows you to 'clean up' a list of if / elseif / else statements, in a more concise way. For example:

{% set foo = 1 %}
{% switch foo %}
  {% case 1 %}
    Foo was equal to the number one.
  {% case 2 %}
    Foo was two.
  {% default %}
    This is the default fallback.
{% endswitch %}