Question

I need a conditional statement to sit inside my WORDPRESS LOOP that reads as follows – this is just an example of what I need, I do not have enough knowledge of PHP to structure this properly:

It should read:

if the_author_meta('client_id') = 'custom-value-1' then display the following code
       <div><img src="http://www.mywebsite.com/<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'img-id', true) ?>"/></div>
else display nothing

The client_id is stored in the_author_meta, so the function needs to check the value of client_id in the_author_meta and check if it matches the value I enter e.g. “custom-value-1”. If it matches, then it would display the div code, and if not, it would display nothing.

Can someone show me how to structure this into a proper PHP string please? I am still learning PHP so this will be a big help in my understanding : – )

Zach

Answer 1

This should do it.

<?php 
$client_id = get_the_author_meta('client_id');
if ($client_id == 'custom-value-1') { ?>
    <div><img src="http://www.mywebsite.com/<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'img-id', true) ?>" /></div>
<?php } ?>

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