[Adrian Schneider]

Conditions are executed like so:

blah blah<if condition="$var">eggnog<else />cheese</if>blahblah

blah blah" . (($var) ? "eggnog" : "cheese") . "blahblah

Because they aren't parsed through double quotes like the rest, there is no need for the braces. I always use the full object vars in conditions, though the shorthand versions appear to work fine as well.

@Boofo: looking at global.php lines 431 (for me anyway):

PHP Code:

if ($vbulletin->userinfo['userid'])
{
    $show['guest'] = false;
    $show['member'] = true;
}
else
{
    $show['guest'] = true;
    $show['member'] = false;
} 


so to answer your question: yes. It's probably "best" to use $show variables in templates as much as possible, because it keeps the application logic seperate from your templates, but for things as simple as that it shouldn't really matter.