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Asked: 2026-05-17T21:16:52+00:00

I want to use the if statement to select specific pages that have <body

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I want to use the if statement to select specific pages that have <body class="section-category"> and output custom content for only those pages.

My PHP is not very good and I hope this is a very simple task to do. Can anyone give me a tip?

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  1. Editorial Team

    It sounds like you want a flag available for certain pages; one that you can read out and act upon in your theme.

    In template.php:

    function YOURTHEME_preprocess_page(&$vars) { //Many themes already have this function implemented
  if (stripos($vars['foo-bar'], 'section')) {
    $vars['is_section'] = TRUE;
  }
  else {
    $vars['is_section'] = FALSE;
  }
}

    Then in your page.tpl.php

    <?php if ($is_section): ?>
    <p>I am in a section</p>
<?php endif; ?>

    That way you keep logic where it belongs: in the preprocessors. And you keep logic out of the template, where it most certainly does not belong!
    The if (stripos($vars['foo-bar'], 'section')) { can most probably be made a lot smarter, if you do a var_dump($vars) there, all available variables will dump on your screen (browser). I am certain you will find a variable that you can check against, and that is less ‘fuzzy’ then a body class. After all: that class is meant for one thing only: to serve as class in the body-tag. And not for checking if you are in some section.
    You have the full Drupal available there too, so you can even use any function that (e,g, the section) modules provide.

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