ExpressionEngine Stash Troubles Using Logic Operators

Question

I've been struggling with stash on this project for some reason. I have a business that has multiple locations available. The locations page is filtered by location to only show what the user selects.

I have the nested lists working now thanks to Mark Croxton (@croxton). I can't seem to get my logical operators working properly though.

So I have a list that looks like this:

{exp:stash:set_list name="locations" parse_tags="yes" parse_depth="2"}
    {exp:channel:entries 
        channel="location" 
        orderby="title" 
        sort="asc" 
        disable="categories|member_data|pagination" 
        dynamic="no"
    }
        {stash:item_entry_id}{entry_id}{/stash:item_entry_id}
        {address}
            {stash:name}{name}{/stash:name}
            {stash:street}{street}{/stash:street}
            {stash:street_2}{street_2}{/stash:street_2}
            {stash:city}{city}{/stash:city}
            {stash:state}{region}{/stash:state}
            {stash:postal_code}{postal_code}{/stash:postal_code}
        {/address}
        {stash:number}{phone_number}{/stash:number}
        {exp:stash:set_list:nested name="location_hours" context="{entry_id}" parse_tags="yes"}
            {hours_of_operation}
                {stash:status}{hours_of_operation:status}{/stash:status}
                {stash:day}{hours_of_operation:day}{/stash:day}
                {stash:open}{hours_of_operation:open format="%g:%i%A"}{/stash:open}
                {stash:close}{hours_of_operation:close format="%g:%i%A"}{/stash:close}
                {stash:range_open}{hours_of_operation:open format="%H%i"}{/stash:range_open}
                {stash:range_close}{hours_of_operation:close format="%H%i"}{/stash:range_close}
            {/hours_of_operation}
        {/exp:stash:set_list:nested}
    {/exp:channel:entries}
{/exp:stash:set_list}

I have figured out that I have to set the format of date/time stamps whilst setting the variables in stash rather than passing them through and formatting them when used. I wish there was a different way, but I can't seem to get that to work. This is why I have range_open and range_close variables. I am trying to use those in order to display the status of the location being viewed.

Per a thread in which Mark informed someone to pull the "parse_conditionals" from inner and outer lists.

{exp:stash:get_list 
    name='locations' 
}
    <div class="contentbox {name}{if '{name}' == 'XXX'} active{if:else} hidden{/if}">
        <div class="grid_3 nomargin">
            <h4>{name}</h4>
            <p>{street}<br />{city}, {state} - {postal_code}</p>
        </div>
        <div class="grid_3 nomargin">
            <h4>HOURS</h4>
            <ul style="list-style:none; padding:0;">
                {exp:stash:get_list:nested 
                    name="location_hours" 
                    context="{item_entry_id}" 
                    prefix="nested"
                }
                    <li><p class="text-left" style="font-weight:bold;padding:0;">{nested:day} : {nested:status}</p>{if "{nested:status}" == "Open"}<p style="font-size:85%;padding:0;text-align:center;">{nested:open} - {nested:close}</p>{/if}
                {/exp:stash:get_list:nested}
            </ul>
        </div>
        <div class="grid_3 nomargin {name}">
            <h4>STATUS</h4>
            {exp:stash:get_list:nested 
                name="location_hours" 
                context="{item_entry_id}" 
                prefix="inner"
            }
                {if "{inner:day format='%l'}" == "{current_time format='%l'}"}
                    {if "{inner:status}" == "Open"}
                        {if "{current_time format='%H%i'}" >= "{inner:range_open}" AND "{current_time format='%H%i'}" <= "{inner:range_close}"}
                            <p>We are currently <strong>Open</strong></p>
                        {if:else}
                            <p>We are currently <strong>Closed</strong></p>
                        {/if}
                    {/if}
                {/if}
            {/exp:stash:get_list:nested}
            <h4>CALL</h4>
            <p>Phone: {number}</p>
            <h4>EMAIL</h4>
            <p><a href="{email}">{email}</a></p>
        </div>
        <div class="clearnospacing"></div>
    </div>
{/exp:stash:get_list}

Everything seems to be working well except for the store "STATUS" segment. I don't know if this is due to looping through the nested stash list twice or not. I didn't see anything in the docs saying it couldn't be done. I have even tried to change the "prefix" for the secondary loop to "inner" rather than "nested". The odd thing is that I can retrieve the values, but the logic won't compute.

For instance, in the secondary inner list loop, the line:

{if "{inner:day format='%l'}" == "{current_time format='%l'}"}

...when just output above the logic with this:

<h1>{inner:day format='%l'} == {current_time format='%l'}</h1>

...looks like this:

Sunday == Friday
Monday == Friday
Tuesday == Friday
Wednesday == Friday
Thursday == Friday
Friday == Friday

What's even more strange is that if I output the debug string with:

<h1>{inner:day format='%l'} == {current_time format='%l'}</h1>

Then I get the following:

Sunday == Friday
Monday == Friday
Tuesday == Friday
Wednesday == Friday
Thursday == Friday
Friday == Friday
We are currently Open
Saturday == Friday

So why would outputting the variable cause it to work? If I remove:

<h1>{inner:day format='%l'} == {current_time format='%l'}</h1>

Then I don't get the expected result. I have bypassed this for now by leaving it in and commenting it out with HTML comment tags, but this is definitely NOT the solution.

Answer 1

Stash itself doesn't have modifiers for variables, such as format="". It can only capture strings from other tags. You will need to save the formatted dates when you set the Stash list if you want to use them in a comparison when getting the list.