For not working with external yaml file

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Hi, i’m working on a pet media project and i’m trying to create an yaml file with all the authors in the media. I’m having trouble using “for”:

      {{ config.authors.kaladan.name }} << this is working

      {% for author in config.authors.kaladan.name %} {{ author }} {% endfor %} << this is not

Thanks!

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What is your authors file called, where is it located and what is the contents of the file?

3

Hi,

the file is called authors.yaml and it is located in /user/config . The content of the file is:

kaladan:
name: kaladan
email: kaladan@mail
image: kaladan.png
bio: simple bio

Thanks.

4

Try turning on the debug panel then putting {{ dump(config.authors) }} in the page. Then check the messages panel and expand the results.

I have a hunch you just have poorly formatted yaml. You would need to paste your yaml file between 2 sets of 3-dashes for it to display properly in this forum.

5

Thanks, this is the content of the yaml in proper format:

kaladan:
    name: kaladan
    email: kaladan@mail
    image: kaladan.png
    bio: simple bio
---
6

That looks right. Oh!!! Hold on

7

Need to move to a computer can’t write code on an iPad :slight_smile:

8

I have activated the debug panel and it looks that the yaml file works ok:

array:2 [
  "kaladan" => array:4 [
    "name" => "kaladan"
    "email" => "kaladan@mail"
    "image" => "kaladan.png"
    "bio" => "simplebio"
  ]
  "ivgin" => array:4 [
    "name" => "ivgin"
    "email" => "ivgin@mail"
    "image" => "ivgin.png"
    "bio" => "ivgin simple bio"
  ]
]
---
9

First off you want to change your format of authors.yaml to something like this:

authors:
   - name: kaladan
     email: kaladan@mail
     image: kaladan.png
     bio: simple bio
   - name: Joe Blow
     email: joe@blow.com
     image: joe.jpg
     bio: joe bio

Then use this code to loop over it:

{% for author in config.authors.authors %}
<h1>{{ author.name }}</h1>
<img src="{{ email.image}}" /> 
<ul>
  <li>email: {{ author.email }}</li>
  <li>bio: {{ author.bio }}</li>
</ul>
{% endfor %}
10

Actually you can use the format you originally had also as long as only authors are in the file:

kaladan:
  name: kaladan
  email: kaladan@mail
  image: kaladan.png
  bio: simple bio
joeblow:
  name: Joe Blow
  email: joe@blow.com
  image: joe.jpg
  bio: joe bio

and

{% for author in config.authors %}
<h1>{{ author.name }}</h1> 
<img src="{{ author.image}}" />
<ul>
  <li>email: {{ author.email }}</li>
  <li>bio: {{ author.bio }}</li>
</ul>
{% endfor %}

It does also have the benefit of being able to extract info via the author name:

Joe's Email: {{ config.author.joeblow.email }}
11

BTW had a typo on that first image example :slight_smile: email.image should obviously been author.image. Waited too long to fix.

12

Hey, thanks! I’ll try this and write back :slight_smile: Have a nice weekend!

13

It works! Thank you very much :slight_smile: