RE: [PHP] Simple: Whats wrong with this?

Jake McHenry <mailto:linux@nittanytravel.com> on Wednesday, March 17, 2004 9:01 AM said: > Does this always work? In my timesheet app, I have to do $counter = > $counter + 1, because for some reason the $counter++; doesn't work. > It just doesn't work, no incrementation of the variable. Is there > something in php.ini that can prohibit this from working? $var++ is a post incrementer meaning the value is updated at the next command*. ++$var is a pre increment meaning the value is updated immediately. is it possible you are expecting the results of ++$var? try this and see what happens: <?php $var = 2; echo $var++ . "<br>"; echo ++$var . "<br>"; ?> also, i don't know of anything in the php.ini that would turn this short hand off. seems unlikely that there is. chris. * i'm not exactly sure how the compiler determines when to post increment, but i think i'm correct.