if empty check on wp_list_bookmarks

Hi,
If you are returning the link or links in an array(‘url’,’title’) from a custom function ‘get_my_links’, in a template page:

<?php $links = get_my_links($category); ?>
<?php if($links) : ?>
	<?php foreach $links as $link : ?>
		<li><a href="<?php echo $link[0]"; title="<?php echo $link[1]; "><?php echo $link[1]; ?></a></li>
	<?php endforeach; ?>
<?php else: ?>
   'Sorry no links for this category!'
<?php endif; ?>

Alternative returned from a function in functions.php

function get_cat_links( $category ) {
   $links = get_my_links($category);
   if($links) {
     foreach $links as $link {
		echo '<li><a href="' .$link[0] .'" title="' .$link[1] .'">' .$link[1] .'></a></li>';
		}
	} else {
		echo 'Sorry no links for this category!';
	}
}

Called in the template:

<?php get_cat_links('the_category'); ?>

HTH

David

possibly:

<?php if( !wp_list_bookmarks('category=whatever&echo=0') ) : ?>
some text
<?php else :
wp_list_bookmarks('category=whatever');
endif; ?>

(keep and integrate whatever paramters you might already have in the function)

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/wp_list_bookmarks

edit: thank you @david – error corrected in the above code ??

I really should read the titles twice I missed the ‘wp_list_bookmarks’

As alchymyth said, except the first line is missing a not !
if not get the links the some text

<?php if( ! wp_list_bookmarks('category=whatever&echo=0') ) : ?>
   some text

David

Those should work. I’m not at home and can’t implement anything yet but will give them a try when I can. Thanks guys.

From a glance though I can see that this may not work due to some syntax issue I will have.

My category_name is generated through a variable which works for me. So my syntax for the wp_list_bookmarks would be something like this: <?php if( ! wp_list_bookmarks(‘category_name=’.$userestimates&echo=0) ) : ?>
<p>You don’t have any estimates yet.</p>

The way I have to do the variable would cause an unexpected T_ECHO where it says &echo because it will appear outside the quotes.

I would use it inside the quotes but the variable does not work that way.

hopefully just a syntax problem:

<?php if( ! wp_list_bookmarks('category_name='.$userestimates.'&echo=0) ) : ?>
<p>You don't have any estimates yet.</p>

OK trying to run this code:

<?php
if( ! wp_list_bookmarks('category_name='.$userestimates.'&echo=0) ) {
echo "<p>You don't have any estimates yet.</p>";
}

returns an error: “Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in CODE on line 3 Errors parsing CODE”

This is being run both on the live site and a syntax checker.

my mistake when correcting the syntax – a missing ‘ before the closing bracket:

try again:

<?php
if( ! wp_list_bookmarks('category_name='.$userestimates.'&echo=0') ) {
echo "<p>You don't have any estimates yet.</p>";
}

That did the trick! Sorry it took so long to respond, I was away. Simple syntax mistake lol. Thanks a ton. Now I just got to add the else statement to display the links when there are links.

Small update. It’s all working fine. Thanks again for the help. I hope to one day know enough PHP tricks to get stuff done on my own lol. Until then, glad there are people out there who are smarter than me. ??