WordPress – If Statement

[chrisburton]

I am using a custom meta box to post a description however, it outputs

when there is no content. How can I write an if statement so if there is content, it will post, otherwise output nothing?

// usually needed

global $custom_metabox;

// get value directly

$custom_metabox->the_value('description');

?>

[SgtLegend]

Try this

global $custom_metabox;



if (($value = $custom_metabox->the_value('description')) !== '') {

echo '
' . $value . '
';

}



?>

[chrisburton]

@SgtLegend It still outputs

[SgtLegend]

See what the output value is by using the following as it sounds like white space may be present in the value.

echo 'Value: ' . $custom_metabox->the_value('description');

[chrisburton]

@SgtLegend That outputs the following

Value: 

[SgtLegend]

Sorry, forgot to wrap it in a function.

echo 'Value: ' . strlen($custom_metabox->the_value('description'));

[chrisburton]

@SgtLegend

Value: 0

[chrisburton]

@ChrisxClash, Ah I think that worked but how would I incorporate:

[chrisburton]

@ChrisxClas Exactly although it’s not working.

[chrisburton]

@ChrisxClash Nothing. It just outputs the text without the markup

[chrisburton]

@ChrisxClash Correct.

[AntonNiklasson]

Try this instead:

$desc = $custom_metabox->the_value('description');



if (!empty($desc)): ?>

".$desc."
"; ?>

[chrisburton]

@AntonNiklasson That didn’t work either, unfortunately.

[TheDoc]

If the one that Chis posted isn’t outputting the markup then I have a feeling like you’re updating the wrong file. Or perhaps your server is caching.

[chrisburton]

@ChrisxClash, @Jamy_za tried helping me out to no success at this time. I sent him my entire theme and what I’m using for my custom meta box (WPAlchemy).

@TheDoc, I thought it was my cache also but I completely cleared it several times.

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