What is the best way to write this php if statement?

chadmk

I am hoping that someone can help me find the best way to write a simple php snippet that will print my page "title" only when a specific class type is NOT present in the page.

Right now I have my page template that prints the title for each page but I would like to change this so that on all product type pages, it doesn't. I want to print the title only from within the product elements template instead. So I need the title statement in the page template to read something like.. <code><?php if (class doesnt exist): print $title; ?></code> to result in the title only being printed when the class of the product element does not exist.

Hope someone could help me with this! Thanks a ton.

planetsim

Have you even made an attempt at seeing what the possibilities are ?

dagon

i would think there is a smarter way than using the presence of a class as an indicator of the type of page.

Derokorian

<?php echo (!class_exists('class_name') ? 'Add Title' : ''); ?>

See class_exists in the manual for more information.

HTH

chadmk

planetsim;10984856 wrote:
Have you even made an attempt at seeing what the possibilities are ?

Yes I in fact thought that's what I was doing here?

chadmk

dagon;10984858 wrote:
i would think there is a smarter way than using the presence of a class as an indicator of the type of page.

What other way would you suggest? I am not closed to this option alone, it is just the way I figured by be easiest to implement. This is an already existing site that I am adding a new section to. I have the following code implemented creating body classes for each section of the site to use when I need to customize the template for a particular section alone. Where I'm having the question is the best way to EXCLUDE a specific section when printing the title.

chadmk

chadmk;10984946 wrote:
What other way would you suggest? I am not closed to this option alone, it is just the way I figured by be easiest to implement. This is an already existing site that I am adding a new section to. I have the following code implemented creating body classes for each section of the site to use when I need to customize the template for a particular section alone. Where I'm having the question is the best way to EXCLUDE a specific section when printing the title.

Here's that code I forgot to include..

$body_classes = array();
$body_classes[] = ($vars['is_admin']) ? 'admin admin-menu' : 'user'; // Page user is admin
$body_classes[] = ($vars['logged_in']) ? 'logged-in' : 'visitor'; // Page user is logged in
$body_classes[] = ($vars['is_front']) ? 'front' : 'not-front'; // Page is front page
$body_classes[] = ($vars['node']->type) ? 'node-type-'. $vars['node']->type : ''; // Page is of node-type-x, e.g., node-type-product

chadmk

Derokorian;10984924 wrote:
<?php echo (!class_exists('class_name') ? 'Add Title' : ''); ?>
See class_exists in the manual for more information.

HTH

Thank You, I will read into this further.

leatherback

Looks to me like you are not actually working with classes, if the code you have given is what you mean by checking whether a class is set. THat is just an array, which you call 'classes' but you mean: User categories, or something.

If you are indeed not working with objects & classes and you really want to test which type of user there is, I would probably create an array $titles[] and set the key to whichever user types you have defined. You can then use usertype to get the right title out.