add multiple content blocks from editing interface

[lisa89]

Hi everyone,
I have a page which will contain multiple blocks of content representing a list contained inside <div class="item"></div>.
In the template I can put

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<div class="item">
  {content}
</div>
<div class="item">
  {content block="2"}
</div>
<div class="item">
  {content block="3"}
</div>

however I want the editor to be able to add a new content blocks without changing the template above, consider that what I represented as <div class="item"></div> could be much more intricate and I don't want the editor to forget some closing <div>which would mess the html.

How can I implement this?
Hope I have been clear enough, cheers.

[mcDavid]

You can assign content blocks to a variable, and use that to check if the block is actually filled in.

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{content block='block1' assign='block1'}
{if !empty($block1)}
  <div> {$block1} </div>
{/if}

And so on for as many blocks as you want.

-edit-
I see you're talking about "items", wouldn't you be better off using a module like News or Products or something?

[lisa89]

thank you mcDavid your solution appeared to be the right solution, however I still miss a bit.
I tried using your solution with the template below:

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{content block="optional product1" assign='product1'}
{if !empty($product1)}
<div class="product1">{content block="optional product1" oneline="true"}</div>
{/if}

{content block="optional product2" assign='product2'}
{if !empty($product2)}
<div class="product2">{content block="optional product2" oneline="true"}</div>
{/if}

{content block="optional product3" assign='product3'}
{if !empty($product3)}
<div class="product3">{content block="optional product3" oneline="true"}</div>
{/if}

However I still have to put N blocks in my template while I'd like the blocks to increment to block2,block3,block4 automatically.
Even worse when editing the page the user will be shown all N blocks, while he should only see the ones which have content plus an empty one to insert new content.

Hope it's clear what I mean...
Thank you very much!

[uniqu3]

Use a Module instead that can achieve your task, there is currently no way to have undifined number of block.
Look at ListItExtended module, this might get you to your goal.