Or simply use a combination of strip_tags and trim?

Hi all,

Any thoughts on how to get the Menu(2) part of the Sidebar function working, which is really the only remaining issue (see my previous post)?
It is always passing true even when there is no Menu(2) items.

Sam

My knowledge of php is fairly poor, so I am not sure how I would determine what Menu(2) returns.
What and where would be the code that I would use?

Thanks,
Sam

I am happy to report that from the suggestions above and from the IRC channel, I was able to complete the code I was looking for.

Its... function Sidebar() { return ($this->Photo()->exists() || strip_tags($this->SidebarContent) || $this->Menu(2)->Count() > 0);}

The ternary operators ? true : false; at the end are not necessary. it's either true or false already, no need for an extra check.
The strip_tags seems to work fine for checking for raw text. It doesn't return true if there are only spaces in the htmltext field. I couldn't get Will's suggestion $this->obj('SidebarContent')->RAW() to work.
The Debug::show(Menu(2)); didn't show me default output to use in function -- at least I couldn't figure it out from what was shown.

Thanx all again for the help!
Sam

Edit: See http://www.silverstripe.org/template-questions/show/273271#post273271 for conditional if statements regarding images. I updated
the above by changing $this->Photo to $this->Photo()->exists as just $this->Photo was returning as a false true.