Geek Switch … or turn off some categories

That’s cool. I’m trying to take what you’ve done and “turn off” my counters when I am in Admin mode. I am having one difficulty in getting an error from index.php. Can you help?

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in /home/jimw3141/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/themes/test/index.php on line 6

<!-- ### Check for geek cookie in index.php file ### -->
<!-- ### Geek Stuff or not ? ### -->
<? php
$dnl_geek = $_COOKIE['geekstuff'];
if($dnl_geek == 'off') {
$cat = '-2';
}
?>

<?php get_header(); ?>

Looks like you just need to get rid of the space between the “<?” and the “php” maybe.

<?php, not <? php

That error could mean that $dnl_geek is undefined. Test for that.

As an aside, you might benefit from putting your variables after the == when doing logical comparisons. See the Coding Style Guidelines, in the last paragraph.