Need to add multiple group names in custom templates

In your first example that’s an OK way to do it, if you have a lot of replacements to perform, you could use a switch statement.

On your second one, if you’re using a custom template and don’t want group titles to show, just take out the code that shows the title. If you use a continue, you’ll jump out of the loop, which isn’t what you want probably.

Roland thanks for your reply.

I don’t know what a switch statement looks like. Do you have an example? I was thinking of something like:
<?php if ( $this->group->name == 'my_group_name1','my_group_name2','my_group_name3' ) : ?> but that didn’t work. Is my php wrong?

Regarding your reply about the second example, it’s not that I don’t want the group titles to appear, I don’t want anything relating to those field groups showing on a list record template. So, in my example, the code is hiding everything (titles and fields) from “my_group_name” in this example.

An approach based on the field excluding code in in the sample record template might work for you:

// define an array of groups to exclude
$exclude_group = array(‘group1′,’group2′,’group3’);

<other template code not modified here>

<?php
while ( $this->have_groups() ) : $this->the_group();
// skip any group found in the exclude_group array
if ( in_array( $this->group->name, $exclude_group ) ) continue;
?>

Thanks so much Billmel. I will let you know how it goes. As for the first example do you think there’s something wrong or missing in my statement?

<?php if ( $this->group->name == 'my_group_name1','my_group_name2','my_group_name3' ) : ?>

Thanks again!

You have two choices here. A switch statement give you the ability to do something different for a number of different cases. If you want to match a value to a set of possible values and it doesn’t matter which one it matches, you use in_array() something like this:

<?php if ( in_array( $this->group->name, array('my_group_name1','my_group_name2','my_group_name3')) : ?>

Thanks Roland and Billmel for your help. The “continue” hiding function isn’t working with my arrays.

<?php if ( in_array( $this->group->name, array('my_group_name1','my_group_name2','my_group_name3')) continue; ?>

Hmmmm.

Continues only work within a loop, so make sure this code is inside the loop, but before anything is printed.

This is where I’ve placed it. Pretty sure it’s in the loop?

<?php $this->print_form_head(); // this must be included before any fields are output. hidden fields may be added here as an array argument to the function ?>
    <table class="form-table pdb-signup">
      <?php while ( $this->have_groups() ) : $this->the_group(); ?>
   <?php if ( in_array( $this->group->name, array('my_group_name1','my_group_name2','my_group_name3')) continue; ?>
        <?php if ( $this->group->printing_title() ) : // are we printing group titles and descriptions? ?>

Do I need to move this before the print_form_head() too?

no, but I’d check to make sure you have your matching strings correct, because the continue will work in that location, so it must be your matching logic.

Strangely, these statements work individually, but I’m just trying to simplify my code…

<?php while ( $this->have_groups() ) : $this->the_group(); ?>
   <?php if ($this->group->name == 'my_group_name1') continue; ?>
   <?php if ($this->group->name == 'my_group_name2') continue; ?>

Got it! This works…
<?php if ($this->group->name == 'my_group_name1' || $this->group->name == 'my_group_name2') continue; ?>

The other array example doesn’t resolve properly either. The whole page disappears.
Have to use above example with

<?php if ( $this->group->name == 'my_group_name1' || $this->group->name == 'my_group_name2' ) : ?>

I’m going to mark this as resolved. Have some related questions though. Love this plugin!