In Need of PHP Help re: IF Statements

[JeffAus]

I am updating a website which contains the following code:

<a href="http://www.mywebsiteaddress.com/specials"<?php if( $thisPage == "Specials") { echo ' class="active"'; } ?> title="Summer Specials">Summer Specials</a>

Essentially it currently says: IF the current page being displayed to the user is the "Specials" page then class="active".

I need it to say: IF the current page being displayed to the user is the "Specials" page then class="active"; OTHERWISE class="yellow".

Can anyone help me with that? I do not know how to write PHP; I only know how to write HTML and CSS.

Thanks,

JeffAus

[Bonesnap]

In PHP and pretty much any programming, there's another element to the IF statement. That is, the ELSE statement.

In an IF statement, you give it a condition. If the condition evaluates to true, then the corresponding code is executed. If the condition evaluates to false, then the ELSE code block is executed. Note the ELSE is not required, as sometimes it may be appropriate to simply do nothing.

In your case, you'd want to write something like this:

<a href="http://www.mywebsiteaddress.com/specials"<?php if( $thisPage == "Specials") { echo ' class="active"'; } else {echo 'class="yellow"';} ?> title="Summer Specials">Summer Specials</a>

So if the condition of the IF statement evaluates to true (if $thisPage is equal to "Specials"), give the anchor tag a class of "active", otherwise (if it evaluates to false) give it the class of "yellow".

[JeffAus]

Great, thanks for your help! I knew I needed the ELSE portion but I didn't know anything beyond that including how to write it in PHP. I appreciate you taking the time to explain that for me.

[Bunkermaster]

You might want to add a space before the opening PHP tag on Bonesnap's code for readability and such. If you display class="" every time, just put the class value in the IF statement for echoing. Less errors possible at maintenance.