Template Conditional - Shouldnt this work?

[Fargo]

This is a snippit of my php code:

PHP Code:

$getlinks = $DB_site->query("SELECT * FROM site_nav_main");

while($link = $DB_site->fetch_array($getlinks))
  {
    eval('$links .= "' . fetch_template('sitenavdetail') . '";');
  } 


one of the fields returned in $getlinks array is called $link['uselink'] which is simply a 1 (toggles the link on) or 0 (toggles it off).

In my template "sitenavdetail", i have the following:

<tr>
<td class="$link[itembgcode]" background="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/header/content_bg_$link[itembgcode].gif">
<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/clear.gif" width="11" alt=" " border="0" /><span class="smallfont"><strong><if condition="$link[uselink]==1"><a href="$link[itemurl]"></if>$vba_options[portal_blockbullet] $link[itemtext]</strong><if condition="$link[uselink]==1"></a></if></span>
</td>
</tr>

In the above code, Im using <if condition="$link[uselink]==1"> to determine if the text should be assigned a url or not.

Problem im having is that its not working. Its still adding the href to everything returned. Can you spot my error?