Re: if/elseif being treated as if/if

Andy I see no reason why both echo's would fire; unless this block of code gets executed multiple times. can we see more of the code? Chris H. On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Andy McKenzie <amckenzie4@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey folks, > > Here's the deal. I have the following code: > > if($col_vals[$i][$val['column']] == $search_result[0][$col]) > { echo ' selected="selected"'; } > elseif($val['default'] == $col_vals[$i][$val['column']]) > { echo ' selected="selected"'; } > > It's supposed to check whether there's a value in the db > ($search_result[0][$col]) that matches the current column value, and > if not, check whether the default matches it. It does that, sort of. > In fact, both statements trigger, which I would have said wasn't > possible. > > So the question is: what causes both parts of an if/elseif > statement to trigger? As far as I can see my punctuation is correct, > and I've confirmed through debugging statements that all the values > are what I expect, so how do I make the elseif stop acting like > another if? Or, alternatively, have I just misunderstood all this > time what the if/elseif statement does? > > Thanks, > Alex > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >