Easy Question -- Show/ Hide text based on output of query

Hi, I am working on a page the displays the output of a query in a table and I only want to show the field labels that have corresponding output from the database. I am only really concerned with the last label in the table. The label is called "Notes" and the corresponding field in the database is "memberNotes" So I wrote the following script where I think I am saying if memberNotes returns any value then print the output of $notes in the table cell where it is called, but nothing happens and the output of $notes is not displayed regardless whether "memberNotes" has any output. <?php If ($memberNotes =='1') { $notes = "<div align=\"/left\"/><font size=\"/-1\"/><b>Notes:</b></font></div>"; } else { $notes = "<div align=\"/left\"/><font size=\"/-1\"/><b></b></font></div>"; } ?> In the table cell I placed the following <?php print $notes; ?> Can anyone see what I am doing wrong?? Thanks for the help Ed