Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-7630509-20150521024335/@comment-4189499-20150521130512

Sadly, MediaWiki templates aren't like proper coding languages where you can hold things in variables like that. The closest I've got has been in creating #switch statements which alter the behaviour for specific values, but if there are loads of values which can meet those conditions, the #switch can get very big (see this as an example). But if the switch is your only option, you use it like this: if I wanted to display the parameter the user included unless the value was octarine, I could use this: