[SOLVED] if statement question

[realjumper]

I can't see the forest for the trees today! Can someone expain to me why the following code doesn't work when the the first condition is true and the second condition is false?

 

In this example, health_safety (in the db) is set to 'No'....but investigator is set to 'Yes'? To my way of thinking the statement is saying "if health_safety is not equal to 'Yes' OR investigator is not is not equal to 'Yes' echo "Go Away".

 

So the example should read (according to the db) "health_safety = 'No' but investigator = 'Yes'" (therefore) 'Hello'

 

 

 

 

if ($row[health_safety] != 'Yes' || $row[investigator] != 'Yes')
  {
  echo "Go Away";
  exit()'
  }

else{
     echo "Hello";
     }

[Caesar]

Does this yield different results.....

 

<?php


  if ($row[health_safety] == 'Yes' || $row[investigator] == 'Yes')
  {
  echo "hello";
  }

    else
    {
     echo "I hate your face. Die.";
     exit;
     }

?>

 

Also...you did print out the values to see if they were outputting 'Yes' or 'No', right?

[realjumper]

Thanks Caesar....the 'if' statement works as you have it....but if neither condition is true ie I set both 'health_safety' and 'investigator' to "No" in the db, then the else staement doesn't work....in fact I just get a white page. Yes I did print out the values and they are fine :-)

[realjumper]

Update: You are correct Caesar,,,, I had an error further on down the page which was giving me the white page....sorry....it's 'one of those days'. Many thanks :-)

[Caesar]

Glad you've got it figured out.

 

Happy coding