Can't get my conditional to work inside a Playa field

Question

I want to insert a simple exception, using an "if" statement, into the flow of my Playa field's output. But it's not working. Can I get help?

Here's the code that works:

{prac_area_contact_people backspace="3"}
<a href="/people/bios/{url_title}"><nobr>{exp:tagstripper:stripAllTags}{people_first_name} {person_last_name}{/exp:tagstripper:stripAllTags}</nobr></a>, 
{/prac_area_contact_people}
{/exp:channel:entries}

prac_area_contact_people is the name of my Playa field.

I want to add some content to the end of the anchor tag in the 2nd line of the sample above, ONLY when the person_last_name field is equal to a certain value.

So I did this:

<a href="/people/bios/{url_title}/{if person_last_name == 'pollack'}professional_liability{/if}">

The goal is that when the person_last_name field is pollack it adds on the extra segment in the URL. But the thing fails. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

That should work as you have it, unless something else is parsing the conditional before Playa can get to it. Try using Playa’s var_prefix param to prevent that:

{prac_area_contact_people backspace="3" var_prefix="person"}
    <a href="/people/bios/{person:url_title}{person:if person_last_name == 'pollack'}/professional_liability{/person:if}">
        <nobr>{exp:tagstripper:stripAllTags}{person:people_first_name} {person_last_name}{/exp:tagstripper:stripAllTags}</nobr>
    </a>,
{/prac_area_contact_people}

Answer 2

The conditional you are looking for is as follow. You have to parse the variable into a string because of the parse order of the playa field.

{if "{prac_area_contact_people}" == "pollack"} Content {/if}

That should work.