Help with hiding blank field questions

• rmcfadd2

• July 19, 2013 at 2:02 am

I have a site with a form created with gravity forms. The visitor fills out this form and it populates a custom post type. The fields that the user completes are custom fields that I have created with “Advanced custom fields”.

The form has a series of questions that the user fills out, but will leave some blank, as they are not all required.

This is the code used for the output: <div class="form-question"><?php echo 'Birthday:' ?></div> <div class="form-answer"><?php the_field('birthday'); ?></div>

I need to figure out how to hide the text ‘Birthday’ if the birthday field is left blank.

• emcniece

• July 19, 2013 at 4:31 am

Perhaps something like so:

<?php if( !empty( get_field('birthday') ) ): ?>
    <div class="form-question">
        <?php echo 'Birthday:'; ?>
    </div> 
    <div class="form-answer">
        <?php the_field('birthday'); ?>
    </div>
<?php endif; ?>

Or maybe you need to display the .form-question divs:

<div class="form-question">
    <?php echo get_field('birthday') ? 'Birthday:' : ""; ?>
</div> 
<div class="form-answer">
    <?php the_field('birthday'); ?>
</div>

Just in case this looks a bit strange to you, there’s a rundown on ternary logic over here.

• rmcfadd2

• July 19, 2013 at 5:59 am

Thank you!