Need if statement for showing ads conditionally based upon style

[jdougher]

I'm trying to use an if statement in photopost to show certain ads under photos if a user has selected Style ID 4 and another (with a different background) if a user has selected Style ID 7.

I created this statement and put it around the ad code in showphoto.tmpl:

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However, this if statement does nothing. The ads show regardless of which style the user has selected.

How would I implement what I am trying to achieve?

Originally I thought this would work:

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However, the above statement simply results in *both* ads showing on both styles.

Help would be appreciated. Thanks.

[Chuck S]

Of course that would do nothing that I am aware of. You can not use vbulletin conditonals in Photopost templates. They use a function to define an html if clause which of course they decode into php and analyse. Now regular conditionals would work but also you need to verify your actual variables to see if they are present. Is the bbuserinfo styleid variable present on the page your using? If it isn't you will not get any type of code to work.

a proper php conditional would look like this. Now note I also put in the print statements to bypass between html and php so you can drop the whole thing right where you want it to print.

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[jdougher]

Originally Posted by Chuck S

Of course that would do nothing that I am aware of. You can not use vbulletin conditonals in Photopost templates. They use a function to define an html if clause which of course they decode into php and analyse. Now regular conditionals would work but also you need to verify your actual variables to see if they are present. Is the bbuserinfo styleid variable present on the page your using? If it isn't you will not get any type of code to work.

a proper php conditional would look like this. Now note I also put in the print statements to bypass between html and php so you can drop the whole thing right where you want it to print.

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Thanks, but that did not work. I insert the code exactly as you wrote, and it simply removed the ad altogether. I checked the Style ID twice, too, and 4 is the ID listed in the VB control panel.

Here's the larger context of where this code is going. Maybe there are some hints here:

Content visible to verified customers only.

Any ideas? Thanks.

[Chuck S]

My code is valid so as stated your variable is not

$bbuserinfo['styleid']

I beleive I suggested you debug that and test it. maybe try using $vbstyleid

also please post in the MOD FORUMS from now on.

[jdougher]

Originally Posted by Chuck S

My code is valid so as stated your variable is not

$bbuserinfo['styleid']

I beleive I suggested you debug that and test it. maybe try using $vbstyleid

also please post in the MOD FORUMS from now on.

Okay, thanks. Just to clarify, you mean I should try this instead? Bear with me. I'm not a programmer.

PPPRINT;

if ( $bbuserinfo['vbstyleid'] == 4 )
{
echo <<<PPPRINT
AD CODE HERE
PPPRINT;
}

echo <<<PPPRINT

[Chuck S]

What I am saying is your not using a valid variable if your code does not work. maybe this but again this is nothing I have tried so I can not say what the proper variable would be. Obviously $bbuserinfo['styleid'] is not correct.

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[jdougher]

Originally Posted by Chuck S

What I am saying is your not using a valid variable if your code does not work. maybe this but again this is nothing I have tried so I can not say what the proper variable would be. Obviously $bbuserinfo['styleid'] is not correct.

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Hmm. I tried this, too, and it didn't work.

Shouldn't I be able to string a bunch of these if clauses, one after the other, to provide different adsense code for different styles? When I try to do that, I get an adense code for each instance of the "if" statement that I provide.

[Chuck S]

You can do whatever you wish as long as you define or use the proper variables. I can not tell what they are as your talking about something outside our application so I would not know what vb variables are correct.