PHP statements, HTML and RSS
- by poindexter
Alrighty, I've got another little bit of code that I'm wrestling through. I'm building a conditional sidebar. The goal is to only show blog related stuff when posts in the "blog" category are being viewed. I've got part of it working, but the part where I'm trying to bring in an RSS feed of the category into the sidebar to show as recent posts. It doesn't work, and since I'm a php newb I'm not entirely sure why. Any suggestions or pointers are much appreciated. I'll post the problem section first, and then the entire php file second, so you all can see the context for the section that I'm having issues with.
Problem Section:
echo '<div class="panel iq-news">';
echo '<h4><span><a href="/category/blog/feed"><img src="/wp-content/themes/iq/images/rss-icon.gif" alt="Subscribe to our feed"/></a></span>IQNavigator Blog</h4>';
<?php
query_posts('category_name=Blog&showposts=2');
if (have_posts()) : ?>
echo '<ul>';
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
echo '<li><a href="<?php the_permalink();?>"><?php the_title();?> </a></li>';
<?php endwhile;?>
echo '</ul>';
<?php endif;?>
echo '<div class="twitter">';
echo '<p id="twitter-updates">';
<?php twitter_updates();?>
echo '</p>';
echo '<p class="text-center"><a href="http://twitter.com/iqnavigator">Follow us on twitter</a></p>';
echo '</div>';
echo '</div>';
The whole darn long statement, for context reasons:
<div class="sidebar">
<?php
if (!is_search() && !is_page('Our Clients') && !is_archive()){
if($post->post_parent) {
$children = wp_list_pages("title_li=&child_of=".$post->post_parent."&echo=0&depth=1&exclude=85,87,89,181,97,184");
}
else {
$children = wp_list_pages("title_li=&child_of=".$post->ID."&echo=0&depth=1&exclude=85,87,89,181,97,184");
}
if ($children) { ?>
<div class="panel links subnav">
<h3>In This Section</h3>
<ul class="subnav">
<?php echo $children; ?>
</ul>
<p> </p>
</div>
<?php
}
}
if(is_page('Our Clients') || in_category('Our Clients') || is_category('Our Clients'))
{
echo '<div class="panel links subnav">';
echo '<h3>In This Section</h3>';
echo '<ul class="subnav">';
wp_list_categories('child_of=21&title_li=');
echo '</ul>';
echo '<p> </p>';
echo '</div>';
}
else if (in_category('Blog'))
{
//PUT YOUR CODE HERE
// echo get_page_content(34);
echo '<div class="panel featured-resource">';
echo '<h4>Blog Contributors</h4>';
echo '<ul class"subnav">';
echo '<li><a href="/company/executive-team/john-f-martin/">John Martin</a></li>';
echo '<li><a href="/company/executive-team/kieran-brady/">Kieran Brady</a></li>';
echo '<li><a href="/company/executive-team/art-knapp/">Art Knapp</a></li>';
echo '</ul>';
echo '</div>';
echo '<div class="panel iq-news">';
echo '<h4><span><a href="/category/blog/feed"><img src="/wp-content/themes/iq/images/rss-icon.gif" alt="Subscribe to our feed"/></a></span>IQNavigator Blog</h4>';
<?php
query_posts('category_name=Blog&showposts=2');
if (have_posts()) : ?>
echo '<ul>';
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
echo '<li><a href="<?php the_permalink();?>"><?php the_title();?> </a></li>';
<?php endwhile;?>
echo '</ul>';
<?php endif;?>
echo '<div class="twitter">';
echo '<p id="twitter-updates">';
<?php twitter_updates();?>
echo '</p>';
echo '<p class="text-center"><a href="http://twitter.com/iqnavigator">Follow us on twitter</a></p>';
echo '</div>';
echo '</div>';
//END CODE HERE
}
if (!is_page('Resources'))
{
?>
<div class="panel featured-resource">
<h4>Featured Resource</h4>
<div class="embed">
<?php
$custom_fields = get_post_custom();
$featured_video_code = $custom_fields['Featured Video Code'];
if($featured_video_code)
{
foreach ( $featured_video_code as $key => $value )
{
$the_code = $value;
}
$featured_video_link = $custom_fields['Featured Video Link'];
foreach ( $featured_video_link as $key => $value )
{
$the_link = $value;
}
$featured_video_text = $custom_fields['Featured Video Text'];
foreach ( $featured_video_text as $key => $value )
{
$the_text = $value;
}
if($the_code)
{
echo $the_code;
}
if($the_text)
{
echo '<ul>';
echo '<li>';
if($the_link)
{
echo '<a href="' . $the_link . '" class="video" target="_blank">' . $the_text . '</a>';
}
else
{
echo $the_text;
}
echo '</li>';
echo '</ul>';
}
}
?>
+ Visit Resource Center
<div class="clr"></div>
<div class="blue-bars">
<a href="<?php bloginfo('template_directory');?>/more-info.php" class="more-info" rel="facebox">Request More Info</a>
<a href="<?php bloginfo('template_directory');?>/resource-form.php?id=701000000009E" class="view-demos" rel="facebox">Schedule a Demo</a>
</div>
</div>
<div id="content">
