Using an if / then statement

pmasys

Obviously I'm new at this and I really appreciate any and all help.

I had someone develop the code you see below. It shows info from a database if the user has entered their info and thus has data to show.

If they haven't yet entered any data and the page is blank, then I would like to display a message to the users. (i.e. instructions on how to set up their account).

Could someone please show me how to change this code to include the "if/then" scenario I just described?

Here is the code:

{if $data.smsTable->data}
{table obj=$data.smsTable}
<table class="table" width="781">
	<tr align="left" valign="middle">
		<td ><strong>Number: </strong><a href="{$http_base}/edit.php?sms_id={$row.sms_id}">{$row.number_format}</a>{if $row.verification}*{/if}</td>
		<td ><strong>Carrier: </strong>{$row.carrier}</td>
		<td >{if $row.verification} N/A {else} {if $row.status=='active'}Focus Tool is <strong>On</strong> - Turn <a href="{$http_base}/user.php?action=deactivateSms&sms_id={$row.sms_id}">Off</a> {else}Focus Tool is <strong>Off</strong> - Turn <a href="{$http_base}/user.php?action=activateSms&sms_id={$row.sms_id}">On</a> {/if} {/if}</td>
		<td ></td>
	</tr>
	<tr align="left" valign="middle">
		<td  colspan="4">
		</td>
	</tr>
	<tr align="left" valign="middle">
		<td ><strong>Min Delay: </strong>{$row.minimum_ts|ts_time_format}</td>
		<td  align="left" valign="middle"><strong>Max Delay: </strong>{$row.maximum_ts|ts_time_format}</td>
		<td ><strong>Operating Days:<br>
			</strong> {$row.when_display}</td>
		<td ><strong>Operating hours:<br>
			</strong>{$row.time_display}</td>
	</tr>
	<tr align="left" valign="middle">
		<td  colspan="4">
		</td>
	</tr>
	<tr align="left" valign="middle">
		<td ><a href="{$http_base}/edit.php?sms_id={$row.sms_id}">Edit</a></td>
		<td ><a href="{$http_base}/user.php?action=deleteSms&sms_id={$row.sms_id}" onclick="return confirm('Are you sure you want to delete this number?');">Delete</a></td>
		<td ></td>
		<td ></td>
	</tr>
</table>

Thanks in advance for any help you can give!

thorpe

Um Im afraid that isn't php. It appears to be some sort of template file, but it is difficult to see what is going on. It does however seem to enable if else blocks. Try adding these lines to the bottom.

{else}
<p>you didnt enter any data</p>
{/if}

pmasys

😕
Ok, so I'm embarassed.

Thanks for the help anyway.

thorpe

Did you try my suggestion?

When i say its not php, It could be some sort of custom built template system that gets parsed by php. However php doesn't use the dot syntax to refer to object methods, so its a wild guess.

Anyway, try my suggestion, it may well work.

pmasys

Yes! It did work perfectly.

And you are correct. This "code" is in a .tpl file and is not PHP. In my newbie-ness I didn't differentiate this in my original message. (Its all greek to me!)

Thanks a million for the help. It got the page running exactly as I wanted it to.

thorpe

Not a problem.