This seems beyond simple, but it's not working. Please help!

[groston]

I am beyond confused and am hoping that you can help!

I have a database and one table looks like this:
dbTable {
  RowID int(10) unsigned  <this value is created automatically>
  Str varchar(100)
  Val int(10) unsigned
}

In my html/php, I have the following test code:
$sql = "SELECT * FROM dbTable WHERE RowID = 5";
$entityData = $mysqli->query($sql);
$EntityInfo = $entityData->fetch_assoc();
$dStr = $EntityInfo[Str];
$dVal = $EntityInfo[Val];

echo “first line”;
echo "str: " . $dStr;
echo "val: " . $dVal;
$sum = $dVal +5;
echo "sum: " . $sum;
if ($dVal > 0) {
 echo "if Val: " . $dVal;
}

The first four echo statements work, however, I cannot get the code to enter the if loop. It seems that the code knows that $dVal is an integer because the sum shown is correct. What must I do to make the if statement work?

[ginerjm]

You could use some quotes on those elements of EntityInfo.

You don't have an if loop.  You are simply testing a value of something and if it is true, outputting something.  One time.  

And - I don't like the add of + 5 to dVal but you don't save it.  So dVal is whatever it was in the table.

If php is still new to you I would like to suggest that you stop using mixed case names.  It is a case-sensitive language so if you get into the JS style of coding you are probably going to run into problems all down the road from mis-typing var names all the time.  Stick with all lowercase.

[mac_gyver]

2 hours ago, groston said:

The first four echo statements work

and what exactly was the output that you got from those statements?