Question

My programmer isn’t available at the moment and I need to make a change to the system.

I have tried to copy what he has done before, but I keep getting errors.

So what I want to do is to have the metatags hidden when a url stats with /id.

He has done the same with the title tag like this:

<?php if (!StartsWith($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], '/id/') echo "<title>$pagetitle</title>"; ?>

Result: title is hidden when an url goes like http://www.site.com/id=15

Below is the metatag as it is:

<?=isset($metatags) ? $metatags:"" ?>

I tried to copy things and make it hide the meta with the code below:

<?php if (!StartsWith($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], '/id/') isset($metatags) ? $metatags:"" ?>

What am I doing wrong? Can anybody be so kind to provide me with the correct line?

Thanks,

Answer 1

You can combine the existing “metatags” line with what your programmer has done previously to hide text based on the request URI, by saying:

<?= (isset($metatags) && !StartsWith($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], '/id/')) ? $metatags : "" ?>

OR

<?php if (isset($metatags) && !StartsWith($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], '/id/')) echo $metatags; ?>

They mean the same thing; you may use whichever you wish.