[Solved] Hide empty list module

[georgie]

Hello

I use modules lists to display something like "birtday today", "Recall today"...

Is it possible to hide a module list when the list is empty?

THX

 

[cheesegrits]

There's nothing built in, no.

Are you trying to hide the whole module, or just not show the list if it is empty?

I can't think of any way to entirely not show a module, but you could code something up in Sourcerer (and Modules Anywhere) to only display the module if there are rows to show, although you'd have to do a query by hand ... so run a query by hand to select rows with birthdays today, if it finds rows, then "echo 'module Your Module Name';" ...

{source}
<?php
$myDb = JFactory::getDbo();
$myQuery = $myDb->getQuery(true);
$myQuery->select('*')->from('mytable')->where('DATE(birthday) = DATE(NOW())');
$myDb->setQuery($myQuery);
$birthdays = $myDb->loadObjectList();
if (!empty($birthdays)) {
   echo "{module Your Birthday Module}";
}
else {
  echo '';
}
?>
{/source}

Actually, that might mean the module doesn't display if you don't output anything if no rows found ... I can't remember if J! bothers rendering a module if it has no content.

-- hugh

 

[georgie]

Ok, thanks for that, I will see in details.