Tab visible? Active Tab?

Okay, think I figured out #2…the answer is here:
https://wpgeodirectory.com/support/search/?bbp_search=add+content+to+tab

But still #1 is pending.

Best way to handle?

Thanks, Guust!

However, I have a feeling I didn’t communicate well.

My Video tab (created with fieldset and two custom fields) is showing fine. Doesn’t need to be re-ordered at present.

What I WOULD like to find out is how to tell whether or not a Tab is actually showing (because it has values in the custom fields that make it up) … OR … if it’s hidden (because it has NO values in the custom fields that make it up.)

That way I wouldn’t have to check individual field values. Instead, I could just check if the Tab is showing.

That way if I ADD custom fields to the tab, I don’t have to continually go back and add those individual custom fields to my conditional statement.

Right now I have to do:
//Assess whether there’s ANY video (custom field) in their
//own tab.
$theres_a_video =
((isset($post->geodir_video1) && $post->geodir_video1) ||
(isset($post->geodir_video2) && $post->geodir_video2));

Problem would be…if I added an additional custom field named Video3 field, I’d have to remember to come back here and change the code.

If instead, I could just say something like (pseudo code)
$theres_a_video = Video Tab is Showing
then I could just forget about the code and let it just work.

Is this any clearer? I don’t know if there’s a function that would give me the “Video Tab is Showing” value, but it would be helpful.

100% correct!

Thought there might be handy variable or function that would tell me whether ANYTHING was visible because it was populated. (Must remember that term…populated is much more descriptive than “filled.”)

Thanks!

Hey, Alex…you got me started in the right direction! Thanks!

Using your tips, I started exploring. Post was not actually what I needed, but testing that started me thinking.

Took me several hours to figure out…but answer was whole lot easier than I thought.

Here goes for someone else who might want to accomplish this. It’s what I used to “test” whether Tab is visible on the Detail Page (in Supreme Directory Theme anyway.)

I am using it in functions.php when I need to figure out if tab even exists for particular listing.

/*
Use this if want to see if tab is actually showing.
Here, my tab gd_tab_2 is a tab created by adding custom field fieldset with two custom fields below it.  

Don't want to test existance or population of custom fields separately.  Instead want to see if tab exists -- because GeoDirectory has already determined SOME field in the fieldset (tab) is populated.  GeoDirectory has done the heavy lifting for me with this function...no point in me repeating that!
*/

   $my_list_of_tabs = geodir_detail_page_tabs_list();
   $video_tab_showing = (isset($my_list_of_tabs['gd_tab_2']))
   if ($video_tab_showing) {echo 'YES...it shows';} else {echo 'NOPE...not showing';}