Substitutions - Can two strings be compared?

There are occasions when one content item needs to be compared with another in an article. I have CB Content Bot installed and enabled. The [cb:if ...] substitution construct is only described in the context of comparing profile fields with a string. I am trying to use it to compare two strings that are produced by other (non-CB) content bots. The example below shows the exact code. Please note that all placeholders in this example are produced by other content bots, not by CB.

This yields a "true" result even when {street_address} and {cb_address} are identical.

There is actually a CB field defined as cb_address. Could this be interfering, or is cb:if not able to compare two strings?

Thanks in advance.

Just as a follow-up, I was able to accomplish the desired effect quite easily using Regular Labs Sourcerer plugin and PHP code.

Your IF substitution should be as follows.


There is no substitution usage to compare a custom string to a custom string. It's not a generalized string to PHP IF statement usage. It's specifically for comparing against field values with a few custom additions (e.g. language, usergroup, and view access level compares). The above will however only work if the replacement for {street_address} is done before CB Content Bot parses for substitutions so load order of your content plugins will be important.