Question

I have a fairly simple question I’m guessing. I have the following code at the beginning of my function, but it must not be correct because it causes the blank to turn blank. If I comment out the IF statement, everything runs fine.

What am I doing wrong?

Sorry, it’s probably very basic…

function get_entries($order = 'newest', $slug = null) {

        $wheresql = '';
        if (isset($slug)) {  
            $wheresql = 'WHERE entries.category_id = (SELECT categories.category_id FROM categories WHERE categories.category_slug = "'. $slug .'")'
        }

Basically, I just want to do something if the user supplied a $slug variable, otherwise skip it.

Thanks.

Answer 1

You are missing a semicolon in the $wheresql = line, causing a parse error.

You need to turn on error reporting to see these errors: error_reporting(E_ALL); in the head of the script will do the trick.