Slightly confused re $[current_user.messages.new]

[pawl]

EDIT; worked it out. I'm an idiot. =]








So I'm fiddling around with the coding on Kami's test site (click), trying to get it to look like her v4.5 forum (click). Ignore the scrollbar, I've yet to fix that. =P

Big problem at the minute is her pm notification. It's a div that has 3 backgrounds (guest, nonewpm, newpm) and 2 messages (guest, member), which I'm trying to replicate.

Here's the code that I'm using atm (bodged straight from the variables insert list =P)

{if !$[current_user.is_member]}
<div style='background: url(http://kamidraws.paul-shepherd.com/images/TARPimgs/NewspaperLayout/PM_guest.png); background-repeat: no-repeat; width: 243px; height: 126px; position: relative; top: 72px; right: 280px;'>
<div id='pm_image' style='padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 50px;' class='guest_pm'><a href='https://www.proboards.com/register/2854802'>CREATE A NEW ACCOUNT</a> or<br /><a href='https://www.proboards.com/login/2854802'>CONTINUE YOUR ADVENTURE</a>!<br />THANKS FOR VISITING!</div>
</div>
{else}(if $[current_user.messages.new])
<div style='background: url(http://kamidraws.paul-shepherd.com/images/TARPimgs/NewspaperLayout/PM_new.png); background-repeat: no-repeat; width: 243px; height: 126px; position: relative; top: 72px; right: 280px;'>
<div id='pm_image' style='padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 50px;' class='member_pm'><a href="conversations/inbox">VIEW YOUR INBOX ($[current_user.messages.new])</a><br /><a href="/conversations/outbox">CHECK OUTBOX STATUS?</a><br />PM NOTIFICATION SETTINGS<br /><a href="/bookmarks">BOOKMARKED THREADS</a></div>
</div>
{else}
<div style='background: url(http://kamidraws.paul-shepherd.com/images/TARPimgs/NewspaperLayout/PM_nonew.png); background-repeat: no-repeat; width: 243px; height: 126px; position: relative; top: 72px; right: 280px;'>
<div id='pm_image' style='padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 50px;' class='member_pm'><a href="/inbox">VIEW YOUR INBOX ($[current_user.messages.new])</a><br /><a href="/outbox">CHECK OUTBOX STATUS?</a><br />PM NOTIFICATION SETTINGS<br /><a href="/bookmarks">BOOKMARKED THREADS</a></div>
</div>
{/if}{/if}

The $[current_user.messages.new] doesn't seem to want to work for me though - I simply get a {if 0} on screen, which is rather annoying. Have tried {if $[] != 0) on the off-chance, but it turns out that I really have no idea what I'm doing. xD

Any chance someone could push me in the right direction? =]

[Shorty]

This here {else}(if $[current_user.messages.new]) should be {else if $[current_user.messages.new]}

Without exactly looking at it all, that's the first thing I noticed.

[pawl]

I think that actually wanted to stay how it was.
It's laid out like this;

[if guest]
message one
[/if][if member][if new pms]
message two
[/if]
[if no new pms]
message three
[/if][/if]

The problem was that I somehow managed to write (if $[current_user.messages.new]) instead of {if $[current_user.messages.new]}, and didn't spot it for nearly twenty minutes. xD

[Shorty]

Yeah. Lol. The parenthesis is what messed it up lol.