Conditional tag and parse error

  • Resolved Nessdufrat

    (@nessdufrat)


    16 years, 6 months ago

    Hi !
    I’m trying to set different sidebars according to which page the user is on.
    I did that : 

    <?
if is_page('8')
{
function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') && dynamic_sidebar(2)
}
if is_page('7')
{
function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') && dynamic_sidebar(1)
}
endif; ?>

    and on my page.php template,

    <? get_sidebar(); ?>

    I get a parse error, unexpected T string on line 2 on the sidebar.php.

    “Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ‘(‘ “

    Can’t understand what’s wrong. Help would be greatly appreciated !

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  • Hi,

    Your second “if” should be “elseif” and you should have an else (even if it’s blank).

    <?
if is_page('8')
{
function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') && dynamic_sidebar(2)
}
elseif is_page('7')
{
function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') && dynamic_sidebar(1)
}
else {
	// blank - do not show a sidebar
}

endif; ?>

    Thread Starter Nessdufrat

    (@nessdufrat)

    Actually, I did something different because my code was completly false from the beginning.

    Here is the right version : 

    <div class="sidebar">
<?
if( function_exists( 'dynamic_sidebar' ) )
{
	switch ( is_page( $post->ID ) )
	{
		case "8":
		{
			dynamic_sidebar( 2 );
			break;
		}

		case "7":
		{
			dynamic_sidebar( 1 );
			break;
		}
	}
}
?>

</div>

    cool! So it works now?

    Thread Starter Nessdufrat

    (@nessdufrat)

    Yeah ?? A friend (C# programmer) helped me write this, and it works like a charm !

    I can’t do anything on my site. I can’t get to dashboard because whenever I type my URL in this comes up.

    Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/thescri1/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 1208

    Someone please help!

    Did you change some code in your functions.php file?

    No, it just happened out of nowhere. One day it just didn’t work.

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