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Author Re: [PHP-DB] What's wrong with this IF statement?
Miles Thompson

2004-04-22, 4:33 pm

Don't cross post -- you'll eventually annoy enough people that they'll stop
responding!
Here are some suggestions:

Are you closing braces properly? (Assume you must be, otherwise errors
would be thrown.

Have you echoed your $cat_id so you know if you are getting?

Use the in_array function to simplify your IF statements.

Test one if statement at a time

MT

At 03:02 PM 4/22/2004 -0400, Robert Sossomon wrote:

>My IF statement should be picking up on the numbers, and if the number
>matches not be displaying out the information, however I look at the
>outputted page and the information is still there, what have I got wrong
>on the code?
>
><CODE SNIPPET>
>//Show categories first
>$get_cats = "select id_num, id_name, description, cat_code from
>categories order by id_name";
>$get_cats_res = mysql_query($get_cats) or die(mysql_error());
>
>if (mysql_num_rows($get_cats_res) < 1)
>{
> $display_block = "<P><em>Sorry, no categories to browse.</em></P>";
>}
>else
>{
> while ($cats = mysql_fetch_array($get_cats_res))
> {
> $cat_id = $cats[id_num];
> if ($cat_id != "53" || $cat_id != "54" || $cat_id != "55" || $cat_id
>!= "117" || $cat_id != "118" || $cat_id != "74")
> {
> $cat_title = strtoupper(stripslashes($cats[id_name]));
> $cat_desc = stripslashes($cats[description]);
> $display_block .= "<strong><a
>href=$_SERVER[PHP_SELF]?cat_id=$cat_id>$cat_title
>$cat_desc</a></strong><br>\n";
> while ($items = mysql_fetch_array($get_items_res))
> {
> $item_id = $items[id];
> $item_num = $items[item_num];
> $item_desc = stripslashes($items[description]);
> if ($item_num != "ABC-R37" || $item_num != "ABC-R42" || $item_num
>!= "HB-99100" || $item_num != "RO-PUMPS" || $item_num != "ML-HDGALJUG"
>|| $item_num != "PFS-CAC21" || $item_num != "PFS-CO2")
> {
> $item_num = ltrim($item_num);
> $item_num = rtrim($item_num);
> $display_block .= "&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<em><strong><a
>href=\"catalog/$item_id.html\">$item_num</a></strong> -
>$item_desc</em><br>\n";
> }
> }
><END SNIPPETS>
>
>My assumption is that BOTH IF statements are not working correctly since
>the logic is that if they are built the same they would react the same.
>HELP!
>
>TIA!
>Robert
>
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