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1. yokima
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   I wanted to use a

   php if (there are comments) { show this and that }

   syntax so I looked up comments.php and found this

   ?php if ($comments) : ?

   1. So I used this in archives.php (which is my substitue for index.php) within The Loop as

   php if ($comments) { blabla }

   but it returns false on every post, including those which have comments.

   2. I then tried pulling out the results from comments_popup_links

   php if (comments_popup_link('0','1','1')=='1') { echo('there are comments'); } ?

   and it didn't work. (the plugin just echoes the stuff on screen and doesn't pass on variables)

   So how can this be done? Help.

2. Kafkaesqui
   Moderator
   Posted 4 years ago #

   $comments is not a global variable, but is created through the comments_template() function (just for the...comments template). So it won't be available otherwise.

   Try using get_comments_number(), which is the underlying function of comments_number():

   if(get_comments_number($post->ID))

3. yokima
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   It works! Thanks

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