Re: if then else statement not working

Anasta wrote:

What am i doing wrong here, the output is always 'empty' <?php $result = mysql_query("SELECT username FROM users WHERE seatnum='seat1'") or die(mysql_error()); if (seatnum == seat1) {

I think maybe you mean this: if ($seatnum == 'seat1') { Heck from the code above you won't even have a $seatnum variable, you'll have a $result variable with some MySQL information in it. Read this: http://php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-result.php