ajannick Posted July 24, 2007 Share Posted July 24, 2007 Hi all, I'm on my way to work so will check back in about an hours time. I am setting up a website where students can login and browse their course information and handouts. I have set up a database with there courses in and have managed to get each students courses to appear after they have logged in correctly. The course shows as a hyper link and is passed to a page where an if statement checks which course it is and then directs them to the relevant page. The code is below: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>course1</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> </head> <body> <?php extract ($_POST); $course = $_GET['course1']; //echo "The course you have chosen is $course"; if ($course = 'English Grammar') { header('Location: EnglishGrammar.html'); } if ($course = 'English Poetry') { header('Location: EnglishPoetry.html'); } ?> </body> </html> for some reason when the English Grammar variable is passed to this page it does not recognise it and goes straight to the English Poetry location. Any ideas or suggestions to do this in a better way? Many Thanks. Mick. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/61452-passed-variable-not-working-in-an-if-statement/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyB Posted July 24, 2007 Share Posted July 24, 2007 if ($course = 'English Grammar') is not how to test for equality. $this = "wombat" sets the value of $this to wombat. == is the equality operator. Change both instances in your code. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/61452-passed-variable-not-working-in-an-if-statement/#findComment-305853 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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