Re: Logic of conditionals and the ( ) operators

On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 10:21 -0800, Allen McCabe wrote: > In a nutshell: > > Will this work? > > if ($perm == (11 || 12)) > > > Explanation: > > I am laying the groundwork for a photo viewing system with a private and > public mode, and additionally if an admin is logged in, there is an > additional level of permission. I came up with a number system to make it > easier (and is calcualted by a class) so now, instead of checking against > the $mode variable, if the user is logged in, and then what their user level > is if they are logged in, I just check against some numbers (the class > evaluates all those conditions and assigns the appropriate number a single > permission variable, $perm. That equates to if($perm == true) as 11 in this case translates to true (being a positive integer) The code never needs to figure out the || part, as the first part is true. I think what you'd want to do is possibly: if($perm == 11 || $perm == 12) Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk