Title: Custom Field / Coding Question
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Custom Field / Coding Question

 *  [vincepettit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vincepettit/)
 * (@vincepettit)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-field-coding-question/)
 * I use the following code to display an image at the left side of my articles,
   but i’m wondering if it would be possible to add something that if I have a flash
   file it will display that?
 *     ```
       <?php $thereisimage = get_post_meta($post->ID, image, true);
       if($thereisimage){ ?>
       	<img src="<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, image, true); ?>" alt="Article Picture" />
       <?php }else{ ?>
       	<img src="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/default.jpg" alt="Default Image" />
       <?php } ?>
       ```
   
 * It works from a custom field on the post (image), and what I was thinking is 
   to create another field named swf, but what I need is for the code to check to
   see if there is [image] OR [swf] and if there is display one of those, if not
   display the default image.
 * This is probably a really simple coding question but I’m not too hot on PHP!
 * Here’s an article page so you can see where the image is being displayed – [http://www.the-dish.co.uk/2009/06/08/past-present-and-future-eddy-temple-morris](http://www.the-dish.co.uk/2009/06/08/past-present-and-future-eddy-temple-morris)

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 *  Thread Starter [vincepettit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vincepettit/)
 * (@vincepettit)
 * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-field-coding-question/#post-1100330)
 * Anyone?

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