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Asked: 2026-06-05T05:48:48+00:00

So I’m learning PHP, well I’m learning more complex standards of php as per

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So I’m learning PHP, well I’m learning more complex standards of php as per phpfox.
An issue I’m having is with a few lines of code – I get what they ‘do’. But I don’t understand why they are structured that way. Could someone explain?

In the following line of code the if statements are cornered by {} and not in the usual:

if thing('condition') {
do stuff
}

Way that i’m familiar with. Why is this?

{if Phpfox::isUser() && !PHPFOX_IS_AJAX && $sCustomViewType === null}
{if (Phpfox::getUserBy('profile_page_id') > 0 && defined('PHPFOX_IS_USER_PROFILE')) 
|| (isset($aFeedCallback.disable_share) && $aFeedCallback.disable_share) 
|| (defined('PHPFOX_IS_USER_PROFILE') && !Phpfox::getService('user.privacy')->hasAccess('' . $aUser.user_id . '', 'feed.share_on_wall'))
|| (defined('PHPFOX_IS_USER_PROFILE') && !Phpfox::getUserParam('profile.can_post_comment_on_profile'))
}

{else}

Also what is the :: thing about? and when I see (not in this) a | by itself, what is that doing?

Thanks very much for any help 🙂

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  1. Editorial Team

    Looks like phpfox templates (uses smarty).

    http://www.phpfox.com/kb/article/231/template-tags-in-phpfox/

    So the part between the {if} and the {else} which you probably left out, is what gets generated (to html) if the condition in the if is true.

    The :: thing is the call of a static method. Phpfox is a class with a static method. Those methods do not need a object and are called ClassName::method()

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