Re: Change styling depending on var value

On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 14:45 -0500, Phil Matt wrote: > I am trying to style HTML table cells depending on the values stored in > a MySQL db. Thanks to other on this list, I can now refer to the > variable that holds a CSS styling value. > > Now, I need to apply different values of that variable, depending on the > content of the table cell itself. > > I tried something like this, where $row[3] contains string values: > > $entree ="meat"; > $dessert ="ice cream"; > $beverage="coffee"; > > (then the query that returns the data) > > if ($row[3] = $entree) > { > $rowcolor = "color:red"; > elseif ($row[3] = $dessert) > { > $rowcolor = "color:blue"; > elseif ($row[3] = $beverage) > { > $rowcolor = "color:green"; > } > else > { > $rowcolor ="color:black"; > } > > I think I'm not properly expressing that I want the values in the > $row[3] compared to those in the specified vars > > Thanks again. > Well, you're main problem here is that you are only using a single = character. What that is saying to PHP is: "if you let me assign the value of $beverage to $row[3] then do this next bit", but what I think you wanted it to say was "if $row[3] is the same as $beverage then do this next bit", which would need == instead of = Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk