Re: if elseif elseif elseif....

PJ wrote:

PJ wrote:

Daniel Brown wrote:

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 17:51, PJ <af.gourmet@videotron.ca> wrote:

    
   elseif ($obligatoryFieldNotPresent = 1) {
           $obligatoryFieldNotPresent = 0;

}

Are you certain you only wanted a single equal operator in the last elseif() condition? Further, are you sure it should even be an elseif() and not a straight else?

That's where the problem lies... the algorhythm is if any one of a series is empty, then it's an error, but if they are all ls then we go on... So the last one should show up as "0"... I tried else $obligatoryFieldNotPresent = 0; but that doesn't want to work. I tried echo $obligatoryFieldNotPresent; just get a blank page... I can't figure out how to determine if anything is in the String... perhaps I should be checking for null elseif ($obligatoryFiledNotPresent == "") {

    $obligatoryFieldNotPresent = 0;
    }

I tried that too, but same result...

finally found the problem... wrong names for string and this is what now verifies correctly.... if (strlen($_POST["titleIN"]) == 0 ) {

            $obligatoryFieldNotPresent = 1;
    }
    elseif (strlen($_POST["first_nameIN"]) == 0 ) {
            $obligatoryFieldNotPresent = 1;
    }
    elseif (strlen($_POST["publisherIN"]) == 0 ) {
            $obligatoryFieldNotPresent = 1;
    }
    elseif (strlen($_POST["copyrightIN"]) == "" ) {
            $obligatoryFieldNotPresent = 1;
    }
    elseif (strlen($_POST["ISBNIN"]) == 0 ) {
            $obligatoryFieldNotPresent = 1;
    }
    elseif (strlen($_POST["languageIN"]) == 0 ) {
            $obligatoryFieldNotPresent = 1;
    }
    elseif (!empty($_POST['categoriesIN'])) {
            $obligatoryFieldNotPresent = 0;

But now I have to figure out the workflow and see why it is not going the right way... wonder where I got some of this stuff... $obligatoryFieldNotPresent=null; foreach($_POST, as $value) { if(!empty($value)continue; $obligatoryFieldNotPresent=true; }