Determine when accessing page?

It is possible that the menus have already been processed before the page is known. If this is not the case, if (is_page(5)) {do something} should work.

Thanks vtxyzzy. I tried that (I meant a 5 in the example above), but it doesn’t work.

I ended up working around it by just setting a php variable in the php template file, before the header file is called. Probably not the simplest, but it works. Thanks for replying ??

Brandon

Actually, just in case anyone reads this… setting a php variable doesn’t work either, though I thought it would. So I still don’t have a good solution, but I’m done worrying about it.

Out of curiosity, did you declare the variable global? That might make a difference.

I tried that, and still no luck. Does the get_header() not act as an include? I thought for sure it would work, I’m a little mystified why it doesn’t. I couldn’t get it to pass a global variable at all to the header.

get_header() is a function – not a standard php include. Where do you want to test for Page 5 and what do you want to do if it is Page 5?

If it is a function, wouldn’t it have access to a global variable stated before the function?

My project index page which is an index of a custom post type doesn’t have the “current-menu-item” in the main navigation. I can fix it like this (an example that does fix another page):

<?php if($post->ID==7){?>
        <style type="text/css">
            #bottom_nav .menu-item-110 a {
                color: #333;
            }
        </style>
    <?php } ?>

But I can’t find anything to fit in the if statement that actually recognizes when it is on that page. I figured I could do basically the same thing with a php variable, but I haven’t gotten that to work either. Thanks for the help.

Passing a variable works for me with this in the template before get_header():

<?php
global $mctemp; $mctemp='woohoo';
?>

and this in header.php:

<?php
global $mctemp; echo '<!-- MCTEMP=' . $mctemp . ' -->';
?>

Nice! That works! Thanks for helping me through that.

I don’t think I added “global” inside the header last time. Many thanks, that is nice to have working!

Brandon