Conditional Statement

If you create a different header file for each year of your posts, such as header-2010, header-2009, header-2011 you don’t even have to do a conditional–just something like this:

<?php
$year = mysql2date("Y", $posts[0]->post_date);
get_header($year); //will use header-xxxx where xxxx is the year
?>

But just in case:

<?php
$year = mysql2date("Y", $posts[0]->post_date);
if ($year == '2010') {
  //do your 2010 thing here
} elseif ($year == '2009') {
  //do your 2009 thing here
}
?>

Thanks, Michael. Someone told me to do:
<div class="content_top-<?php if(get_the_time('Y')<='2009') echo 'no_header'; ?>">
Is there a right way or wrong way?

Thanks again.

Right way = what works for you ??

Sounds good to me.

In addition to the posts from 2009 and earlier having ‘style a’, I need to also give posts that don’t have the lead_image custom field value to have ‘style a’ as well.

I have a posts from 2010, but there is no ‘lead_image’ custom field associated with it so I need it to have the style that earlier posts do.

Can I add something like (get_post_meta($post->ID, 'books', true)): in there somewhere? (I tried that bit and it didn’t work at all.) As you can tell I don’t know php.

Thank you for any help.

Will offer

<?php
$books = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'books', true);
if ($books){
//there is a books custom field on this post
}
?>

OK. Now I’m really confused…this is what I did because I have no idea how to combine if statements:

<?php $lead_image = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'lead_image', true); ?>

       <div class="content_top-<?php if(get_the_time('Y')<='2009') && $lead_image == 'true' { echo 'no_header';} ?>">

Thank you!

if (get_the_time('Y')<='2009' && $lead_image == 'true' )

Thank you for your help Michael. It didn’t work and I know there is a bunch wrong with the code. I realized it would be safe to avoid using the date because it won’t matter. All that matters is whether or not a post has a ‘lead_image’ custom field or not. Here’s the code from the top of the loop. What am I doing wrong?

<?php
  wp_reset_query();
  if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post();
?>
<?php $lead_image = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'lead_image', true); ?>

<div id="single" class="single-narrow">
  <div class="post post-single">
		<div <?php post_class() ?> id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">

      <?php if (strlen($wpzoom_ad_content_imgpath) > 1 && $wpzoom_ad_content_select == 'Yes' && $wpzoom_ad_content_pos == 'Before') { echo '<div class="sep">&nbsp;</div><div class="banner">'.stripslashes($wpzoom_ad_content_imgpath)."</div>"; }?>      

	 <div class="content_top-<?php if(get_the_time('Y')<='2009' && $lead_image == 'false') echo 'no_header'; ?>">
       <div class="wrap">
       		<img src="<?php echo $lead_image; ?>" alt="Image for Post #<?php the_ID(); ?>" />

			<div class="title">
     			<img src="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/images/brownlens.png" alt="Lens Icon" width="43px" height="56px" class="lens" />
      			<h1 class="spt"><?php the_title(); ?></h1>
      			<p id="title_data">in <span class="category"><?php the_category(', '); ?></span> by <?php the_author_posts_link(); ?> <span class="datetime"> &mdash; <?php the_time("$dateformat \a\\t $timeformat"); ?></span> | <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>#commentspost" title="Jump to the comments"><?php comments_number('0 comments','1 comment','% comments'); ?></a><?php edit_post_link( __('Edit'), ' | ', ''); ?></p>
      		</div><!-- end title -->
     	</div>
      </div>

				<div class="sep">&nbsp;</div>

        <?php the_content(''); ?>

So maybe:
delete this line:

<?php $lead_image = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'lead_image', true); ?>

and change this

<div class="content_top-<?php if(get_the_time('Y')<='2009' && $lead_image == 'false') echo 'no_header'; ?>">
       <div class="wrap">
       		<img src="<?php echo $lead_image; ?>" alt="Image for Post #<?php the_ID(); ?>" />

to this:

<?php
  $lead_image = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'link_url', true);
  if (!$lead_image ) { ?>
    <div class="content_top-no_header">
  <?php } else { ?>
    <div class="content_top-<?php echo get_the_time('Y'); ?>">
      <img src="<?php echo $lead_image; ?>" alt="Image for Post #<?php the_ID(); ?>" />
   <?php } ?>
 </div> <!--content_type-xxxxxxx -->

Michael,
That worked! You are awesome!
Thank you SO MUCH for all of your help. Taking the time to see this through means a lot.
Seriously, I can’t thank you enough.
??