Trouble with if (empty

Question

I'm trying to set up a page with an image gallery where, if the alt field is empty, it'll display whatever is in the caption (at least one or the other will always have content). This is my current code, which is displaying nothing at all.

$image_all = wp_prepare_attachment_for_js($item->ID);

if (empty($image_all['alt'])) { 
    echo $image_all['caption']; 
} else { 
    echo $image_all['alt']; 
}

If I just put in echo $image_all['alt']; (or 'caption' ) it displays just fine. But using the if statement results in nothing displaying at all.

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Well I feel pretty stupid right now. I was modifying code for the display page, but was trying to view the results from the search page. I really need to set this up with an include file so I only need to make changes in one place. I'm really sorry for wasting everyone's time. My original code works just fine.