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Conditional Teaser Output in Ditto with TVs and PHx
A practical pattern for showing different teaser fragments depending on which TV values exist.
Ditto templates often needed small conditions: show an image only when a TV is filled, output one teaser block when a field exists, fall back to another when it does not. This pattern shows how PHx and TVs were combined to make list templates more expressive without rewriting the whole listing layer.
Why it mattered
- it made teaser layouts more flexible
- it avoided repeating separate Ditto templates for small output differences
- it shows the historical role PHx played before lighter helper patterns became common
Why this belongs in the timeline
Conditional teaser layouts became common as soon as projects needed richer content cards. PHx often filled that gap before lighter helper patterns were common in the ecosystem.
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