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The if statement is not working, why??

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Apr 28.2010

Hi,

i had been using for so long a snippet like this one

<? if($currentpage=”treatment”) echo “class=act”; ?>

but now im trying it in a page and it doesnt work. The if ignores the condition and echoes anyway regardless of the variable ($currentpage could be anything and it still echoes). I checked the syntax 1 million times and its correct so i really dont understand why is not working. Can you please give me a hint?? The full block of code goes like this

[code=php]
 <ul id=”menu”>
<li><a href=”index.html”>Index</a></li>
<li <? if($currentpage=”treatment”) echo “class=act”; ?>><a href=”treatment.php”>Treatment</a></li>[/code]

Thank you.

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@ShortsApr 28.2010 — Change
[code=php]<? if($currentpage="treatment") echo "class=act"; ?>[/code]

To
[code=php]<?php if($currentpage=="treatment") echo "class=act"; ?>[/code]

First, add the <?php at the beginning so your code can be portable. And be do comparison with ==. A single = just sets $currentpage to have the value "treatment", which will always return true. You can see an example of that by adding an echo $currentpage after your if statement, and then changing "treatment" to another value.
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@supercainauthorApr 28.2010 — Oh man, thank so much. The problem was the missing "=". I cant believe i missed it!! what is really odd is that it was working with only one "=" when ran it locally on my computer but on the web server it didnt so it was driving me nuts.

Thank you!
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