<if condition=> help please

[Joe Pimms]

hey i have a question for all you php coders

im working on a vbhack that improrting from another script my question is this
in the script im working on have all the templates in the .php scripts and in the scripts there are a few areas that have this in it

PHP Code:

<table width="140" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" bgcolor="#86A4C6">
            <tr>
              <td background="bgMenu.gif">
                <div align="center"><strong>Stats</strong></div></td>
            </tr>
            <tr class="categoriesbox_transparentborder">
              <td bgcolor="#f5f7fa" class="categoriesbox_text"><div align="center">Serials in DB: <?php getindb();?><br>
                Total Serial Views: <?php gettotalviews();?></div></td>
            </tr>
          </table>

PHP Code:

<?php gettotalviews();?>

its these thing im wondering when i make the template how i can keep this same function to work in the script as im going to remove all the other thing and leave the php code in the php tags

could i use the

PHP Code:

<if condition=> 


or ?

please help me