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One of my Channels has two custom fields: photo and photo_homepage. photo is the photo for the actual page, and photo_homepage is for the little blurb & thumbnail when the page is featured on the homepage.  There are two photos in case the client wants to use a different thumbnail on the homepage than on the page itself.

So, on the homepage, I want an if statement…something like:

{if [photo_homepage exists]}
<img >
{if:else}
<img >
{/if}

How do I check to see if photo_homepage exists?

thanks,
benjy

Hi Benjy,

You’re actually very close with what you have there :

{if photo_homepage != ""}
{photo_homepage}
{if:else}
…other image source code…
{/if}

Unless your small and large images are completely different then I’d definitely recommend looking at using something like the CE Image plugin as this will then allow you to only upload the one larger image and then create your smaller image on the fly dynamically.

Like I say if the images are exactly the same (just smaller) then this add-on really is one of the best add-ons you can ever install for ExpressionEngine and will save hours of time literally.

Hope that helps a bit anyway.

Best wishes,

Mark

Awesome…thanks! I’ll take a look at that add-on, too.

Awesome…thanks! I’ll take a look at that add-on, too.

No problem at all.

Hope everything else goes well for you.

Best wishes,

Mark