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Pierre Smith
Pierre Smith
11,842 Points
Posted by Pierre Smith
Pierre Smith
11,842 Points

How do I implement else w/ the if / while format given?

I this video we have to do this 

<?php  if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
<?php the_content(); ?>
<?php endwhile; endif; ?>

to allow for easy text editing. How do I add an else to this?

2 Answers

Yojance Rabelo
Yojance Rabelo
1,156 Points
Yojance Rabelo
Yojance Rabelo
1,156 Points 
<?php  if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
<?php the_content(); ?>
<?php endwhile; else: ?>
Your else stuff
<?php endif; ?>
mark mun
mark mun
5,026 Points
mark mun
mark mun
5,026 Points

Do you need all those separate php tags? can you get away with :

<?php  
  if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); 
       the_content(); 
  endwhile; else:
       Your else stuff
  endif; 
?>
Matthew Fung
Matthew Fung
8,643 Points

While it's probably too late to give a timely response, having the php in seperate blocks will allows you enter html seperately from the php content.

Otherwise you would either have html in php code which would error out, or you would have to echo it out each time.

<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
           <?php the_content(); ?>
    <!-- HTML could be here instead of the php call. 
           You might want to have the title specifcally in a <h2>
           and the_content() in a <p> -->
    <?php endwhile; else: ?>
         <!-- HTML could be here instead of the php call. 
               You might want to have the title specifcally in a <h2>
                and the_content() in a <p> -->
    <?php endif; ?>