Hi,
I am trying to get a sidebar to appear based on one of the following conditions:
There are child pages (i.e., Menu2 items), or a photo or content entered into the CMS sidebar tab, which I've added to the Page.php file.

I can get <% if Menu(2) %> and <% if Photo || SidebarContent %> to work on their own. But I get a parsing error if I combine them.
This is the code in my page.ss template. Any ideas?

<% if Menu(2) || Photo || SidebarContent %>
      <div id="ContentNarrow">   
         $Layout
      </div>
      <div id="SidebarR">
      <% if Menu(2) %>
         <% include Menu2 %>
      <% end_if %>
      <% if Photo || SidebarContent %>
         <% include SidebarStuff %>
      <% end_if %>   
      </div>
      
   <% else %>
         $Layout
   <% end_if %>

Thanks,
Sam

What would the "your or statement" in the brackets look like?

I've tried this...
function Sidebar() {
return ($this->Photo || $this->SidebarContent || $this->Menu(2)) ? true : false;
}

And a couple of other variations -- all giving errors.

Thanks,
Sam

Actually, I was incorrect in that there is no error given in the code:
function Sidebar() {
return ($this->Photo || $this->SidebarContent || $this->Menu(2)) ? true : false;
}

It just that it always passes "true" even when there is no values for Photo, SidebarContent or Menu(2). As a result the sidebar div still appears on all pages.

Any more ideas?
Sam

Thanks everyone for the input so far,

So I am able to get the following to work.

function Sidebar() {
return ($this->Photo || preg_replace('@<[\/\!]*?[^<>]*?>@si','',$this->SidebarContent)) ? true : false;}

'@<[\/\!]*?[^<>]*?>@si' strips out all the html tags which leaves just the "raw" text, though $this->SidebarContent !== '<p></p>' works just as well. (The function $this->SidebarContent->RAW() was giving the error "Call to a member function RAW() on a non-object".)

However, I can't get $this->Menu(2) in the function to work properly as in:
return ($this->Photo || preg_replace('@<[\/\!]*?[^<>]*?>@si','',$this->SidebarContent) || $this->Menu(2)) ? true : false;}

$this->Menu(2), similar to issue with SidebarContent in my previous posting, is always passing true even when there is no Menu(2). I've tried doing preg_replace to strip out the html tags but that didn't make any difference.

Any more suggestions?

Sam