Re: Comparing strings

Must have been a missing semi-colon it works now. Thanks. <% echo $Action; if ($Action == "Submit") { echo " Process form"; } else { echo " Do Nothing"; } %> <html> <form method="Post" action="self.php"> <input type="text" name="Var1" maxlength="20"> <input type="submit" name="Action" value="Submit"> </form> </html> Cc Zona wrote: > In article <3BE1136F.5294A6B5@phantomcougar.com>, > phantom@phantomcougar.com (Phantom) wrote: > > > 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. > > If the variable is set as you've confirmed, then that should work. If PHP > is reporting a parse error with that line number, note that the lines where > PHP stopped parsing isn't necessarily the line where the bad code resides. > Try checking back a few lines; you may have left off a semi-colon or > somesuch. Another idea: check that the variable's length is the expected 5 > chars; maybe there's some trailing whitespace that's causing the comparison > to fail (trim() is handy for avoiding this gotcha). If neither of those > solve the problem, try re-posting with a larger code snippet. > > -- > CC