Conditional Tags

From Habari Project

When creating a theme, there are occasions where you wish to only show certain sections of your theme's template depending on what page your visitor is viewing. For example, you might wish to display a list of all tags used within the sidebar.

$request is a member variable of the theme class you are using, there are a number of built-in page types that can be attributes of the $request object.

• display_home
• display_entries
• display_entries_by_date
• display_entries_by_tag
• display_entry
• display_page
• display_search
• display_404

In the example below the search form will only display when not viewing the search results page(s).

<?php if( !($request->display_search ) ) { ?>
 
<li id="search">
<?php include 'searchform.php'; ?>
</li>
 
<?php } ?>

If you wanted content to appear only on one specific page, you would use $post->slug to call the page name. In the example below the search form will only display when viewing a page with the slug 'contact'.

<?php if ($post->slug == 'contact') { ?> 
 
<li id="search">
<?php include 'searchform.php'; ?>
</li>
 
<?php } ?>