Question

I’m developing WordPress theme for my friend’s company, but this question is all about PHP so writing here, on SO.

I have two sidebars, that’s how we display sidebars in WordPress:

 if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar('SidebarName') ) :  
 endif;    

So that’s an if statement.

Ok, now, I want to display ONE sidebars IF $layout=”one” TWO sidebars IF $layout==”two” etc.

This code works, but it duplicates sidebars contents I believe endifs are messing with the parent loops or something like that:

 if($layout="one") { 

      if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar('Sidebar 1') ) :  
      endif; 

 } elseif($layout=="two") {

      if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar(' Sidebar 1') ) :  
      endif;    

      if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar('Sidebar 2') ) :  
      endif;     

 } elseif($layout=="three") { (...)

How to fix that issue? When I just delete the main if loop – everything work like expected, so I’m sure I got lost somewhere above.

Sorry, typos, I’m using $layout== instead of =

Answer 1

I agree with Michael and also, I’m not sure how your functions are set up but usually I’d see something more similar to

if($layout == "one" && function_exists('dynamic_sidebar'))
{
    dynamic_sidebar('Sidebar 1');
}