HTML markup not displaying from within php if statement

Question

I have a WordPress theme with a brief summary, with css styling, at the top of a post. This is wrapped in an if statement to only display if there is a summary.

Using the code below, the summary text displays, but the surrounding HTML markup is not included in the page source.

<?php if (get_smry_text($post)) { ?>
<div class="summaryWrap">
    <div class="sumText">
        <p><?php get_smry_text($post); ?></p>
     </div>
 </div>
 <?php } ?>

Can anyone offer a suggestion as to why this might be?

dynamic · Accepted Answer · 2014-10-30 21:23:53Z

1

It is possible that get_smry_text() doesn't return any values.
Instead it echoes the content directly. If you are using this function you can do something like this:

<?php if ($smry = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'smry_text', true)) { ?>
<div class="summaryWrap">
    <div class="sumText">
        <p><? echo $smry; ?></p>
     </div>
 </div>
 <?php } ?>

answered Oct 30, 2014 at 21:23

dynamic

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tonyedwardspz Over a year ago

Perfect...and kudos on the homework! If I understand it now, the code within the if statement gets skipped completely, and instead the if condition itself is echoing the text?

user1009835 · Accepted Answer · 2014-10-30 21:27:33Z

0

Try doing this:

<?php
   $smry_text = get_smry_text($post);
   if ($smry_text) {
       $text = '<div class="summaryWrap">
               <div class="sumText">
                 <p> ' . $smry_text .  '</p>
               </div>
           </div>';
        echo $text;
   }
?>

answered Oct 30, 2014 at 21:27

user1009835

3 Comments

Jonast92 Over a year ago

And this does what? It won't even compile now, unfortunately.

tonyedwardspz Over a year ago

Using this the summary text does not display at all :(

user1009835 Over a year ago

Then get_smry_text must not be returning anything

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