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1. nunovo
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I'm trying to figure out how to display the latest instance in each of 3 categories on the index page, am not getting answers to my questions here, and am slowly stumbling my way through the Codex, and now have a question about one of the examples.

   <?php if (is_category('11') ):
    // we're in the Plants category, so show a plant ?>
    <img src='/images/plant.png' alt='a plant' />
   <?php } elseif (is_category('22') ):
    // we're in the Flowers category, so show a flower ?>
    <img src='/images/flower.png' alt='a pretty flower' />
   <?php endif; // end the if, no images for other other categories ?>

   Line 4 has a closing curly bracket that prompts an error when I put the snippet in my index template.
   Why is the closing curly bracket there?
   What does it do?

   I took it out, the error goes away, I seem to have fixed a subsidiary problem, and might then be able to get back to my main question.

2. Rev. Voodoo
   Volunteer Moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   well, I'm no php rockstar...

   but looking through my theme, none of my php lines have a bracket like that, so I'd assume it was errant

3. nunovo
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   So I may have found an error in the Codex tutorial?

   I must be getting better at this...

4. Mark / t31os
   Moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Yes that's a typo, someone made a minor mistake..

   There are a few others scattered throughout the codex, but it's like a Wiki in many ways, lots of people contribute, so mistakes will occur..

5. nunovo
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Wah-hey, first bit of debugging I've ever done!
   Well, insofar as it counts.
   Back to the original problem of the Loop and categories now...

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