If the image variable is specified, show image, if not no code

Question

This should be simple, and yet everything I'm trying blows the blog up.

I want to be able to specify an image variable in a custom field (that works great) but if that's not specified, don't include the image code. It's creating a image missing error in some browsers (IE).

Any ideas?

Thanks, Bob

Answer 1

you just have to check if it exists before outputting any markup.

<?php
$postimage = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'postimage', true);
if($postimage):
?>
    <img src="<?php echo $postimage; ?>" />
<?php
endif;
?>