Re: Comparing strings
| From: | Michael Egan | Date: | Thu, 01 Nov 2001 10:50:55 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Comparing strings | ||
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I feel fairly new to this as well but I think that, whilst your logic is
right, the syntax may be a little off.
if ($action == "textstring)
{
echo "true";
}
else
{
echo "false";
}
Above should show how the syntax will rok.
Good luck
Michael
phantom wrote:
>
> Bear with me, new to PHP and got a beginner's questions
>
> How do I run an if statement and the if statement compares a String?
>
> IN ASP (yes I Know, ASP is evil) I would have wrote
>
> if (String(Request("Action"))=="Submit")
> do this
>
> In PHP I have tried
>
> if ($Action == "Submit") but I get a parse error in that statement.
> What am I doing wrong? Thank you. I did an echo $Action to confirm
> that it's value is Submit.
>
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