Conditional for conditional in PHP

Question

I'm stuck in an odd situation. I'm taking dynamic boolean value from admin panel in WordPress, and with that condition of data, I need to set another conditional statement, but when in implementation I came to know that, I've never done this.

if( get_option('on_blog_page_too') )
   if( is_home() || is_page_template('blog.php') ) :
else
   if( is_home() ) :

But as you can understand I'm getting a Parse Error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected 'if' (T_IF), expecting ':'...

How can I put condition over conditional statements?

fico7489 · Accepted Answer · 2015-10-17 18:04:02Z

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Yor second if don't have body, and replace : with ; something like:

if( get_option('on_blog_page_too') ){
    if( is_home() || is_page_template('blog.php') ){

    }
}else{
    if( is_home() );
}

answered Oct 17, 2015 at 18:04

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Mayeenul Islam Over a year ago

That can be a way, but I have a huge block of items to show under each conditional, so I can't go with this way.

Mayeenul Islam · Accepted Answer · 2015-10-17 17:58:34Z

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As the additional part is attached with the base conditional (the dynamic value from the back end) why not we bind them together?

if( ( get_option('on_blog_page_too') && is_page_template('blog.php') ) || is_home() ) :

So if the option is get, so do we need to match the is_page_template is blog or not. If the option is not set, our secondary condition is ready: only for home page.

answered Oct 17, 2015 at 17:58

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elixenide Over a year ago

This doesn't really answer the question. Please edit your question instead of posting an answer.

Firas Rassas · Accepted Answer · 2015-10-17 18:01:43Z

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replace ":" with semi-colon ";"

answered Oct 17, 2015 at 18:01

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Mayeenul Islam Over a year ago

I think you are out of PHP :p

Firas Rassas Over a year ago

Ok, didn't know that.. thank you.. so i think you're missing "endif;" at the end

Firas Rassas Over a year ago

and if you replace ":" with ";" your code will work.. you can try it

user5051310 Over a year ago

@FirasRassas technically, that's correct so I'll give a+1 to balance your score. But OP probably didn't post all the code that goes into that if statement so simply changing to ; will not do anything except remove the parse error

user5051310 · Accepted Answer · 2015-10-17 18:09:46Z

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You're missing endif; for your inner if statements.

if( get_option('on_blog_page_too') )
  if( is_home() || is_page_template('blog.php') ) :
      // code here
   endif;
else
  if( is_home() ) :
    // code here
  endif;

answered Oct 17, 2015 at 18:09

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