Simple If statement

[rn14]

Could anybody tell me why the if statement below will not work? And how to get it to work? The value of meals changes and what i want to happen is when it increases by 20 for the value of people to increase by one.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

if ($meals = "20")

$people = "1";

elseif ($meals = "40")

$people = "2";

$peop = $people;
echo $peop;

[trq]

= is the assignment operator, your looking for == (a comparison operator). Also, numbers are not surrounded by quotes in php.

[flyhoney]

<?php
if ($meals == 20) {
    $people = 1;
} else if ($meals == 40) {
    $people = 2;
}
echo $people;
?>

[flyhoney]

also:

 

$people = ceil($meals/20);