Re: PHP 4.0 Bug #4751 Updated: fopen within if is not executed

But that is exacly what I want. The second file should only be opened if the first was opened successfully. My mistake was that I had to set parantheses. It looked like a bug to me because this code worked fine in PHP 3. You wrote: mixing assignments (or any other operation that is not free of side-effects) with logical operators is generally not a good idea as php (similar to C and others) uses an optimization technique called "lazy evaluation" so if you have an expression like expr_a && expr_b and expr_a evaluates to false, then expr_b is never evaluated as the overall result of the '&&' would be false anyway ______________________________ Homepage: http://www.edvfrings.de