I’m new to php. When I run this code …
[php]
<?php $requestInfo2 = "Listen"; print $requestInfo2."[/php]
I get output of
Listen
Variable = Offers!
Trying to figure out why it fails.
Thanks
Instead of this
[php] <?php
$requestInfo2 = “Listen”;
print $requestInfo2."
";
if ($requestInfo2 = “Offers”) {
echo “Variable = Offers!”;
} elseif ($requestInfo2 = “Listen”) {
echo “Variable = Listen!”;
}
?>[/php]
it should be
[php] <?php
$requestInfo2 = “Listen”;
print $requestInfo2."
";
if ($requestInfo2 === “Offers”) {
echo “Variable = Offers!”;
} elseif ($requestInfo2 === “Listen”) {
echo “Variable = Listen!”;
}
?>[/php]
I like using === instead of ==, for if you accidentally leave an equal sign out you should be OK. Three equal signs is an exact match and 99 percent of the time it works OK; however, if by chance it doesn’t then try 2 equal signs to see if it fixes the problem. It’s a trick that someone showed me when I ran into that problem. BTW if you have more elseif statements I would check into using a switch statement.
What is failing? It is doing exactly what you’re telling it to do. What results are you expecting?
since $requestInfo2 = “Listen” - I’m expecting the output to be
Variable = Offers!
As Strider pointed out, that isn’t what is actually happening.
[php]
$requestInfo2 = “Listen”;
print $requestInfo2."
";
if ($requestInfo2 = “Offers”) {
// $requestInfo2 no equals “Offers”
echo “Variable = Offers!”;
} elseif ($requestInfo2 = “Listen”) {
// $requestInfo2 no equals “Listen”
echo “Variable = Listen!”;
}
[/php]
Comparison is ==
Assignment is =
You are assigning the new value, not checking if that is the value.
i got it!