[if exists]{PARAM} – else clause fails unless param sent as blank string

i found a workaround for now:

[if check={PARAM} value="{PARAM}"]
param not passed
[else]
{PARAM}
[/if]

essentially if the param isn’t passed in the shortcode then {PARAM} just equates to the literal string "{PARAM}" so it means it hasn’t parsed it to something else

above doesn’t seem to work anymore

anybody know a way to check if a param wasn’t passed?

thanks

found another temporary workaround, for anybody awaiting a fix:

[myshortcode]
[myshortcode param="foo"]

[if exists][format split="{}" part=2]{PARAM}[/format][show]
param was not passed
[else]
param was passed as {PARAM}
[/if]

what the format split does is create the literal string “PARAM” if no param is passed, or creates a blank string if a param *was* passed, since there are no {} brackets to split on due to it being parsed to an actual value

• This reply was modified 4 years, 6 months ago by codemonkeynorth.

i found why my original workaround failed in some cases

[if check={PARAM} value="{PARAM}"]
param not passed
[else]
{PARAM}
[/if]

if param does not contain a space it doesn’t work

[myshortcode param="foo"] shows “param not passed”
[myshortcode param="foo bar"] shows “foo bar”