Conditional For Entry Listing Pages Only

Question

I have some code inside a global snippet that I only want to display on a blog listing page. So the allowed URL types could be:

• /blog
• /blog/P10
• /blog/category/crackers
• /blog/author/skeletor

I do not want the code to display on the individual blog post pages (/blog/my-post-title).

So the pseudo-conditional would be:

• If segment_1 equals "blog" AND

  • segment_2 is empty
  • OR segment_2 is pagination
  • OR segment_2 equals "category"
  • OR segment_2 equals "author"

The pagination is the part that's tripping me up. I know I can use Switchee to use regexes, but it doesn't let me use advanced AND/OR and () operators to string cases together. Something like:

{if segment_1 == 'blog' AND (segment_2 == '#^P(\\d+)$#' OR segment_2 == 'category' OR segment_2 == 'author' OR segment_2 == '')}

Is there an add-on that will let me use regexes inside advanced conditionals, or is there another way of doing it altogether?

Answer 1

You can actually nest Switchee tags with a special syntax, so this should work for you:

{exp:switchee variable="{segment_1}" parse="inward"}
    {case value="blog"}
        {switchee variable="{segment_2}" parse="inward"}
            {case value="#^P(\d+)$#|''|category|author"}
            .. display your stuff ...
            {/case}
        {/switchee} 
    {/case}
{/exp:switchee}