Hello everyone my Name is Ryan though I am more commonly know as Kuper. I am young guy who is starting to work his way into the world of being a webmaster. Having said that Christmas has not come around and I have I do not have the money to buy that PHP book I have been dieing and needing to get. I come here to ask for some help and guidance as I learn. All of that being said I have a friend to the family seeking my help and as much as I am helpful to him on the HTML side of his site, he asked about PHP and all I can do is sit on my thumb as guess.

Moving to the point he is running a wordpress THESIS (theme) blog with multiple pages. He has a banner for every page (5 pages total) but they all show up on every page one right under the other. He asked WP and THESIS and he was told he needs a if else else statement to correct this issue. I have a simple idea of what needs to be said in the code but again not knowing PHP (yet) I have no idea how to write it.

At the end of the day all I am asking for is some idea anyone can give me as to how to write this out in code, anything I can use to give it a test and figure it out from there. More than anything I need the starter; fair enough? Can anyone please help me??

Happy holidays
Kuper

<?php
If(condition to test){
  do some stuff here if condition tested is true
} else {
  do some stuff here if condition tested is false
}
?>

That's the basic if else. It's hard to know what to tell you more specifically, because I'm not entirely sure what you want to do. I understand the basic idea, but the details aren't known.

It's possible and even likely that you can use WordPress conditional tags instead of directly using php.

If you want to describe in more detail what you're trying to do, I'm sure we can provide something more specific as an answer.

They best way I could tell you what I am trying to do is maybe to show you what has gone wrong. Here is the site I am working with and as you may very well see there are different pages (about, contact, archives, etc) We have managed to get the banners in the right place but they are all showing on ever page instead of just on each banner's respective page.

From my basic knowledge of PHP and if else usage I would describe it as

IF page = "index" IMG = banner1
ELSE Page = "About" IMG = Banner2
ELSE Page = "Contact" IMG = Banner3

That said this is not MPI and I am not on a MU* so I doubt that plain English is going to go over to well, then again I have a basic, less than W3Schools, understanding of PHP as I have stated.

I am thankful for your help on this while I try myself to even begin to understand what I am doing.

Starting from your example, a syntax correct solution could be

PHP Code:

// assuming the $page variable is set
if ($page == "page1") {
   $img = "banner1.png";
} elseif ($page == "page2") {
   $img = "banner2.png";
} elseif ($page == "page3") {
   $img = "banner3.png";
}
// and so on
else {
   $img = "default.png";
}


// where the banner is output
echo "<img src=\"path/to/images/$img\">";