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Posted by Ryan Clark
Ryan Clark
1,562 Points

If no dynamic sidebar?

if( !dynamic_sidebar( 'uptop' ) );

What is this line of code saying exactly?

If there is no dynamic sidebar 'uptop' then do what? I've never ever seen a conditional end with a semicolon. I know the brackets are there so PHP will know where the code block begins / ends.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/dynamic_sidebar It says in the documentation that dynamic_sidebar function returns a boolean true / false.

Thank you,

Ryan

1 Answer

Ryan Clark
Ryan Clark
1,562 Points
Ryan Clark
Ryan Clark
1,562 Points

I think I might've figured out some of it. This basically goes to say don't output any widget area if dynamic_sidebar returns false. The semicolor caught me off guard because I've never seen that before but it just terminates the statement.

Am I correct?