Re: navigation include not functioning (RESOLVED)

Yes, that's a golden rule for a bug free code. The rule shoudl be something like this... Whenever you have a constant value evaluated to a non-constant value put them in the left side of the expression. if( 'constant' == $non_constant ) echo ' variables has that name for anything '; if( false !== ( $pos = strpos( 'php', 'I love php sintax' ))) echo ' we all love it '; Also note that is easy to count the closing parenthesis (if your editor does not helps try with SciTE) On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Ben Dunlap<bdunlap@agentintellect.com> wrote: >> In my navigation.php include file, I had if ($page = about) echo href..... >> I changed it to if ($page == about) echo.... and it suddenly worked! Imagine >> that... > > Another good case for putting the variable on the right side of "==": > >   if ("about" == $page) > > Then if you mis-type "==" as "=", PHP will fail immediately with a parse > error. > > It feels a little weird but if it saves a lot of head-desk moments it's > probably worth it. Now if only I could get into the habit myself... > > Ben > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Martin Scotta