If AND statement?

[ERuiz]

I am having a little problem with the following code:

 

if ($juniorofficerexam == "no" AND $currenthours <= 49) {
echo "You are eligible for the Junior Officer Exam";
} else {
echo "You passed the Junior Officer Exam";
}

 

In my case, $juniorofficerexam = no and $currenthours = 59

 

The result being displayed is "You passed the Junior Officer Exam". But, it should be "You are eligible for the Junior Officer Exam", because even though I have more than 49 as currenthours, I do meet the "no" criteria.

 

How can I make this code give a true result when both criteria are NOT met. I thought the AND would do the trick.

 

Regards,

 

ERuiz

[bobleny]

I think you should try this:

echo $juniorofficerexam . " - " . $currenthours;
die();
if ($juniorofficerexam == "no" AND $currenthours <= 49) {
echo "You are eligible for the Junior Officer Exam";
} else {
echo "You passed the Junior Officer Exam";
}

[ERuiz]

Thanks for your help buddy, but I kept messing around with it and this did the trick:

 

if ($juniorofficerexam == "yes" AND $currenthours >= 50) {
echo "You passed the Junior Officer Exam";
} elseif ($juniorofficerexam == "yes") {
echo "You passed the Junior Officer Exam";
} else {
echo "You are eligible for the Junior Officer Exam";
}

 

Thanks!

[bobleny]

Ahh... according to your if statement, $currenthours is illrelevant!

 

The way you have your if statement, you pass the exam whether you $current hours is 5000 or 5....

[bobleny]

I don't think you have it the way your thinking. Try this:

$currenthours = "20";
$juniorofficerexam = "yes";
if ($juniorofficerexam == "yes" AND $currenthours >= "50") {
echo "You passed the Junior Officer Exam";
} elseif ($juniorofficerexam == "yes") {
echo "You passed the Junior Officer Exam";
} else {
echo "You are eligible for the Junior Officer Exam";
}

 

Even though, $currenthours is less than 50, you will still pass the exam....

[magic2goodil]

One might think you should have a previous function that asks whether the hours are enough to take the exam in the first place, which in turn allows you to just ask whether or not they have a yes or not upon completing it.  Also AND in C and PHP should be &&, and also OR is || which is right above the \ key.

 

AND = &&

 

OR = ||

[corbin]

You can use AND and it will do the same thing, but it operates slightly differently.  If I run across the article I'll post it because I actually thought it was a good read.