Re: What's wrong with this IF statement?

Don't cross post -- you'll eventually annoy enough people that they'll stop responding! Here are some suggestions: Are you closing braces properly? (Assume you must be, otherwise errors would be thrown. Have you echoed your $cat_id so you know if you are getting? Use the in_array function to simplify your IF statements. Test one if statement at a time MT At 03:02 PM 4/22/2004 -0400, Robert Sossomon wrote:

My IF statement should be picking up on the numbers, and if the number matches not be displaying out the information, however I look at the outputted page and the information is still there, what have I got wrong on the code? <CODE SNIPPET> //Show categories first $get_cats = "select id_num, id_name, description, cat_code from categories order by id_name"; $get_cats_res = mysql_query($get_cats) or die(mysql_error()); if (mysql_num_rows($get_cats_res) < 1) { $display_block = "<P><em>Sorry, no categories to browse.</em></P>"; } else { while ($cats = mysql_fetch_array($get_cats_res)) { $cat_id = $cats[id_num]; if ($cat_id != "53" || $cat_id != "54" || $cat_id != "55" || $cat_id != "117" || $cat_id != "118" || $cat_id != "74") { $cat_title = strtoupper(stripslashes($cats[id_name])); $cat_desc = stripslashes($cats[description]); $display_block .= "<strong><a href=$_SERVER[PHP_SELF]?cat_id=$cat_id>$cat_title $cat_desc</a></strong><br>\n"; while ($items = mysql_fetch_array($get_items_res)) {

    $item_id = $items[id];
    $item_num = $items[item_num];
    $item_desc = stripslashes($items[description]);
    if ($item_num != "ABC-R37" || $item_num !=  "ABC-R42" || $item_num

!= "HB-99100" || $item_num != "RO-PUMPS" || $item_num != "ML-HDGALJUG" || $item_num != "PFS-CAC21" || $item_num != "PFS-CO2")

    {
    $item_num = ltrim($item_num);
    $item_num = rtrim($item_num);
    $display_block .= "&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<em><strong><a

href=\"catalog/$item_id.html\">$item_num</a></strong> - $item_desc</em><br>\n";

    }

} <END SNIPPETS> My assumption is that BOTH IF statements are not working correctly since the logic is that if they are built the same they would react the same. HELP! TIA! Robert -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php