Question : drupal blocks & php

Hello,

I have created a theme for Drupal 6.17.  The person who is implementing it is not using the blocks region to manage content as Drupal is intended.  

So when an object is assigned to the sidebar_left region the theme is not entirely applied.

I was wondering if writing an if else statement would handle if the sidebar left is empty or not so that the style sheet is applied or should it just be written so that all content in the left side bar gets the style sheet regardless of if it is empty or not.

My php for the left sidebar looks like this:

<?php $l = art_sidebar($left, $sidebar_left);
if (!empty($l) || !empty($sidebar_first)) echo '<div class="'.art_get_sidebar_style($l, $sidebar_first, 'art-sidebar1').'">' . $sidebar_first . $l . "</div>"; ?>
<?php $l = art_sidebar($left, $sidebar_left);
echo '<div class="'.art_get_sidebar_style($l, $sidebar_first, 'art-content').'">'; ?>
<? endif ?>

Answer : drupal blocks & php

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