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How to do comparisons in volt

below is my code .....and it is not working properly......error is shown in comments 

{% for element in form %}
  {% if is_a(element, 'Phalcon\Forms\Element\Hidden') %}
    {{ element }}
  {% else %}
<div class="form-group">

{% if element.label() =="name" %}//Comparision is made here but not working
{{4}}
{% endif %}


85.5k
edited Oct '16

probably you wanted to do 


{% if element.label == "name" %}

without the (). Never used those so i am not 100% sure what is the currect property/ method you need



65.1k
in reply to Izo

nope....even this is not working

probably you wanted to do 


{% if element.label == "name" %}

without the (). Never used those so i am not 100% sure what is the currect property/ method you need



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Accepted
answer
edited Oct '16

You are probably looking for element.getName(), this will return the <input name="first_name"/> attribute.

Full list of form element methods here: https://docs.phalcon.io/en/latest/api/Phalcon_Forms_Element.html