Adding custom PHP to WP pages

see if these threads help;

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/adding-separate-php-filled-pages
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/adding-php-code-to-wordpress-pages

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 https://wordpress.pastebin.com/ and post the link to it here)

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… ?

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: https://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)
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/is_page
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Conditional_Tags
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Conditional_Tags#A_PAGE_Page

That’s great. I’ll look into that and get back.

Many thanks!

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

Took me a while to get around to trying this but thanks, it works a treat ??