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t-p
(@t-p)
can you define ‘flop’?
any error messages or warnings?
what is the code you added in the context of the existing header.php?
(for longer code, use a http://wordpress.pastebin.com/ and post the link to it here)
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Andy
(@andythreecoaching)
Actually, it may be my php. I’m rusty with php.
Here it is:
<?php
if (page-id=="20") {
<div id="homelinks">
Bla bla, div content goes here...
</div>
} else {
echo "";
}
?>
I’m trying to establish ‘if’ you’re on the home page then display this div, otherwise do nothing. I noticed that pages have an id and that the home page is 20. So this is my guess… ?
Thread Starter
Andy
(@andythreecoaching)
Actually i think it’s my bad.
I thought that the pages had a ‘page-id’ variable. But i just did this and it came out negative:
<?php
if (defined('page-id')) {
echo "x";
}
else {
echo "y";
}
?>
So… is there a way to check if we’re on a certain page?
unfortunately, programming does not work with guessing – if unsure, read the documentation.
this might work:
<?php
if ($post->ID==20) { ?>
<div id="homelinks">
Bla bla, div content goes here...
</div>
<?php } else {
echo "";
}
?>
always make sure to close the php tags before starting html tags, and vice versa.
page-id is neither a valid php variable, nor holds it the page ID.
the page ID is normally $post->ID
php variables do not have hyphens –
for instsnce: http://www.tizag.com/phpT/variable.php
edit:
just saw your question:
So… is there a way to check if we’re on a certain page?
there is: is_page(20)
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/is_page
http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags
http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags#A_PAGE_Page
Thread Starter
Andy
(@andythreecoaching)
That’s great. I’ll look into that and get back.
Many thanks!
Thread Starter
Andy
(@andythreecoaching)
Ok, i got the is_page to work. Those links were most useful.
But I just need a further tip in how to do something…
I want it to say:
<?php
if (is_page('About 3C')) {
<div>Display this particular div</div>
}
else {
<div>Display that particular div</div>
}
?>
At the moment, it throws out a php error. I used to be able to do this in coldfusion, anything after the if statement would just display/continue the html code, so we’d see the resultant div tags.
refer to alchymyth’s earlier post in reference to opening and closing php tags:
<?php
if (is_page(‘About 3C’)) {?>
<div>Display this particular div</div>
<?php }
else { ?>
<div>Display that particular div</div>
<?php }?>
try that
Thread Starter
Andy
(@andythreecoaching)
Took me a while to get around to trying this but thanks, it works a treat 🙂
