Page display problem

Anon

I am writing a script, and i seem to be running into some trouble with the template script. It will only display one of the included pages even when I request a different page. to request a page I use this format: admin.phtml?page=edit

I have enclosed the code to the page below.

<?php
Print("\n");
Print("<HEAD>\n");
Print("<TITLE>News Admin</TITLE>\n");
include("/path/to/292/include/style.inc");
include("/path/to/292/include/db_functions.inc");
Print("</HEAD>\n");
Print("<BODY>\n");

//Set page variables
//$page = '0';
$news_root = "/path/to/292/include/news";

//Connect to database
mysql_pconnect($hostname, $user, $password) or die("There is something worng with the connect info or the server " . mysql_error());
mysql_select_db("burwell");

if ($page = add)
{
include "$news_root/add_news.inc";
}
elseif ($page = edit)
{
include "$news_root/edit_news_table.inc";
}
elseif ($page = delete)
{
include "$news_root/delete_news.inc";
};

Print("</BODY>\n");
Print("\n");
?>

kparker

I see two things right off here.

(1) The oldiest, nastiest C error in the book:

   $page = add

This is an assignment, not a comparison. To compare, use the == operator.

(2) I'm not sure how PHP handles perl-like 'barewords'. I would definitly write those constants a quoted strings, e.g.

   if ($page == 'add')

Anon

Thank you very much. I always miss the simple errors. As for the single quotes, I tryed it and it seems to work, but it also seems to work without them, but I think i'll keep them anyway to aviod any future confusion. Thank you again.