RE: [PHP] Can anyone help me out? I am really getting frustrated!

> -----Original Message----- > From: Mike [mailto:funyon@funyon.com] > Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 2:46 PM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] Can anyone help me out? I am really getting frustrated! > > > Hello all, > I am very confused. This script that I have been working on > for a while > is giving me a hard time... > > $string = "Current song: 01. DJ Nightflight - The first > flight (original > \ > mix) (D I G I T A L L Y - I M P O R T E D - European Trance, Techno, > Hi-\ > NRG... we can't define it!)"; > > if(substr($string,0,1) = "C"){ ^^^^ You're assigning, not comparing here. Should be: if(substr($string,0,1) == "C"){ If you write these like this: if("C" = substr($string,0,1)) { Php will give a parse error because you can't assign a value to a constant. > print "made it past substr!<br>\n"; > $TrackName = trim(substr($string,strpos($string,".")+1)); > }