Re: Ghost in my machine?

At 14:43 22.05.2003, daniel@rhesusb.dk said: --------------------[snip]-------------------- >Hi all! > >I'm totally stomped here... I'm making a backend, and have an include script >that connects to the database using session vars. It first checks for the >presence of $dbUser and $dbPassword in the session vars, then establishes a >connection to MySQL using the data herein. If everything goes well, a >control variable, $dbConnected, is set to TRUE. > >The script finally controls that value like this: > >if(!$dbConnected) { > // HTML output to request username and password >} > >Now, the weird thing is, it seems the very testing of the $dbConnected >variable actually resets it. If I do an echo($dbConnected) before testing >it, I get a TRUE (1), but if I do the same echo after testing if it's false, >I don't. The if(!$dbConnected) statement always returns true, even if >$dbConnected is true. Like this: > >echo("dbConnected variable is $dbConnected"); >if(!$dbConnected) { > echo("dbConnected variable is $dbConnected); >} > >- when loading the page, I get > >dbConnected variable is 1 >dbConnected variable is > >I also tried testing with... > >if($dbConnected != TRUE) > >...but to no avail. > >Now, if I do something silly, like this... > >echo("dbConnected variable is $dbConnected"); >if($whatTheHell != 10000029423894) { > echo("dbConnected variable is $dbConnected); >} > >...then I get: > >dbConnected variable is 1 >dbConnected variable is 1 > >So this leads me to the conclusion that it's the if statement that's >throwing away my value. But why? Is it because I'm using session vars? > >I've checked the actual connection, and pulled data from the database >successfully, so $dbConnected is correct to return TRUE in the first place... > >As said, I'm stomped =( Please help. --------------------[snip]-------------------- Sounds wierd... try to do a var_dump() on $dbConnected and see what it exactly is... -- >O Ernest E. Vogelsinger (\) ICQ #13394035 ^ http://www.vogelsinger.at/