Can't get the if-else conditional tag to work

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Oops… Sorry, I haven’t fully tested your code. I only stripped it of unnecessary opening and closing php tags.

Try this one:

<?php if (is_front_page()) {

    global $options;
    foreach ($options as $value) {
        if (get_settings( $value['id'] ) === FALSE) { $$value['id'] = $value['std']; } else { $$value['id'] = get_settings( $value['id'] ); } }

    if ($gear_banner_visibility == "on") { ?>
                    <div class="banner">
                        <div class="paddings">
                            <img src="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/images/ico.big/<?php echo $gear_banner_image; ?>" alt="Gear"></img>
                            <?php echo stripslashes($gear_banner_text); ?>
                        </div>
                        <div class="clear"></div>
                    </div>
					<?php } } 

else {

echo '<div id="menubottom"></div>';

}
?>

Great! You’re welcome. Glad to help.

Well, originally you had about six sets of unnecessary opening and closing php tags. Servers are kind of touchy when having to do this. Look at your original you pasted to pastebin and compare it to the code I provided. You can see the ones I pulled out.

I didn’t test your code originally, so in the first example I gave you (the one that gave you the error), one of your “if” statements was being closed twice. Hence the unexpected } in the error.