php if is_category question

instead of opening the <?php and closing ?> and then opening another one and closing for each line, why not have one <?php for all the code:

<?php
	if (is_category('Category A'))
	{

		<p>This is the text to describe category A</p>

	}
	elseif (is_category('Category B'))
	{
		<p>This is the text to describe category B</p>
		<?php
	}
	else
	{
		<p>This is some generic text to describe all other category pages,
		I could be left blank</p>

	}

?>

Hope this helped ??

Nope sorry that’s incorrect and will not function…

With PHP you will need to echo out the HTML content…
It would be like this without opening and closing PHP…

<?php
	if (is_category('Category A'))
	{
		echo 'This is the text to describe category A
';
	}
	elseif (is_category('Category B'))
	{
		echo 'This is the text to describe category B
';
	}
	else
	{
		echo 'This is some generic text to describe all other category pages,
		I could be left blank
';

	}

?>

oh yh sorry…i didn’t see that one…thanx ??

Im using the folowing script in my Sidebar to show specific menu depending on the categories :

<?php
if (is_category(‘recipe’)){ include (TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/sidebar-recipe.php’); }
else { include (TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/sidebar-main.php’); }
?>

It works great. My only problem is that I would like to include all the sub-categories of the categories “recipe”, so that everything under it (child) will have the same sidebar. Something like : if (is_category_and_child …

Otherwise if I cant do that, I would like to be able to include more than one categories in the tag, but I cant find the right syntax. Something like : if (is_category(‘recipe’, ‘deserts’, ‘soup’, ‘lamb’, ‘etc…’ ))

Thanks a lot.