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Ok, I thought I had this working and it’s probably something simple I’m missing. How do you check to see if a weblog entry has category? I thought by just doing

{categories}
{if category_id != ""}
(do something)
{if:else}
(do something else)
{/if}
{/categories}

I’d be fine. Well if there is a category, then the stuff in the first “if” works, but anything inside the {if:else} part doesn’t execute if there’s no category. I want to display the category image if there is a category, and display a default image if there is no category.

Any help?

Probable the easiest way to handle this would be:

<?php $has_categories = "n"; ?>
{categories}
do something
<?php $has_categories = "y"; ?>
{/categories} 
<?php if ($has_categories == "n") { ?>
do something else
<?php } ?>

Make sure php enabled on output.  Since php would be on output, every thing between the {categories} and {/categories} will be removed if there is no category; therefor, $has_categories will not be set to “y”.

Hi DRUMZ,

To check if entry has categories you can use Entry Categories plugin.