If...Then...Else Statement.

[northview]

Hello, I am new to PHP.

I have gone so far but need help on this issue.

I have the following statement:

<a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/<?=$FACEBOOK_NAME?>/<?=$FACEBOOK_ID?>" Target = "blank">

What I would like to do is:

IF <?=$FACEBOOK_ID?> is empty THEN load the following link:

<a href="http://www.facebook.com/<?=$FACEBOOK_NAME?>" Target = "blank">

ELSE load

<a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/<?=$FACEBOOK_NAME?>/<?=$FACEBOOK_ID?>" Target = "blank">

The reason is to give the option of loading a profile or a page in facebook.

This is probably real simple...thank you for you help.

Thank you again.

[dagon]

empty()

[northview]

I appreciate the link. ummm I am in the Newbie section for a reason. hehe

I followed the link looked around...and well I still have no clue. haha

[dagon]

the first user note has an if\else example.

[northview]

Yeah...still lost. I can't see how this relates to if..then..else and links.

[dagon]

//fill in the blanks

if(empty($FACEBOOK_ID)){
//something
}else{
//something else
}

[northview]

here is what I have:

if(empty($FACEBOOK_ID)){
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/<?=$FACEBOOK_NAME?>" Target = "blank">
}else{
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/<?=$FACEBOOK_NAME?>/<?=$FACEBOOK_ID?>" Target = "blank">
}

<img src="<?=$SITE_PATH?>/images/facebook.jpg" alt="Find us on Facebook" border ="0"/></a>

The else part works flawlessly....

<a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/<?=$FACEBOOK_NAME?> link works

The first part:

<a href="http://www.facebook.com/<?=$FACEBOOK_NAME?>" Target = "blank">

Does not work...strange it creates a link that looks like this:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/whatever

also on the page above the link (image) it displays this:

if(empty($FACEBOOK_ID)){ }else{ }

I am sorry I am such a newbie...thank you for your help.

[northview]

Here is the exact code I used to make it work:

<?php
if(!$FACEBOOK_ID){
echo '<a href="http://www.facebook.com/'.$FACEBOOK_NAME.'" Target = "blank">';
}else{

echo '<a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/'.$FACEBOOK_NAME.'/'.$FACEBOOK_ID.'" Target = "blank">';
}
?>

<img src="<?=$SITE_PATH?>/images/facebook.jpg" alt="Find us on Facebook" border ="0"/></a>

Thank you for your help.