Easy PHP challenge

[CompareStore]

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OK I am a windows programmer and am trying to get my head around the basics of PHP so I can make a few changes to Wordpress blogs.

I am pulling my hair out with the following as it doesn't work and just gives me a blank page:

<?php $title = wp_title(); ?>

<?php if (empty($title)) ?>

some html

<?php else : ?>

some html

<?php endif; ?>

I'm sure it's a syntactical error?

If anyone can let me know what I am doing wrong it would be much appreciated :-)

[Barry]

I'd do this :-

<?php $title = wp_title(); ?>

<?php if (empty($title)) { ?>

some html

<?php } else {  ?>

some html

<?php }  ?>

Ta

Barry

[CompareStore]

Thanks Barry - that has to take the record for the quickest answer ever!

[Barry]

No problems

Ta

Baz

[marclittlemore]

<?php if (empty($title)) ?>

Barry's answer works but to fix your problem you were just missing a colon after the last bracket:

<?php if (empty($title)) : ?>

It's just the alternate syntax for the curly brackets:

if ( blah )
{
// Your code
}

or

if ( blah ) :
// Your code
endif;

I'm from a C/C++ background and I prefer the former but it's easier to use the latter when combining it with HTML.

Cheers,
Marc