Conditional formatting in header.php file

[ReginaStelling]

Hi!
I want to put some code in the header.php to do some conditional formatting based on Category.

Is that possible...

How can I do this:

IF Category = "Ice Cream"
then A
IF Category = "Chili"
then B
IF Category = "Coffee"
then C
Else
D

I know a little php...but not sure how to check the category. Is that a URL string I should check??

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!!

[gravenimage]

The categories are passed along the URL with the name cPath, and the value is the same as the category id that's set in the database. You can do what you're trying to do like this:

if (isset($HTTP_GET_VARS['cPath'])) {
    $cPath = $HTTP_GET_VARS['cPath'];
        switch ($cPath) {
            case "2" :   // "Ice Cream" id
                echo "Ice Cream HTML code here";
                break;
            case "3" :   // "Chili" id
                echo "Chili HTML code here";
                break;
            case "6" :   // "Coffee" id
                echo "Coffee HTML code here";
                break;
        }
    } else {
        echo "Default HTML code here";
    }

As always, back up your file first

[ReginaStelling]

THANK YOU, THANK YOU! I could not figure that out!!