passing the $m variable successfully?

I’ve googled the site for any light to this but haven’t found much. I’m using elasticdog’s faking multiple templates article as my baseline. Everything works great except when I view my monthly archives, I can’t get it to differentiate between a yearly archive or monthly archive.

I can use php, but have little knowledge of it. I tried doing elseif {$m && $year} for the monthly elseif statement but that had no effect.

My archive section is at bluewebpages.com/archives/ if needed

Thanks