Re: Change styling depending on var value

On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 15:11 -0500, Phil Matt wrote: > Ashley Sheridan wrote: > > > 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, Ashley. I don't do enough PHP to get used to the syntax. > > I changed the operators to ==, but my conditional apparently isn't > working correctly. I checked to make sure the values in the cells were > the strings as I've specified them, but the resultant formatting always > defaults to the ELSE color. > > Must be something very simple, but I'm just not getting it. > > Cheers --- Phil Don't forget to reply to all! Just a quick question, what do you get if you do: print $row[3]; Does it contain a string like you expect? Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk