Greater Than Does Not Work

[Anon]

Any idea what is wrong with the following code?

if ($new_qty > $free_stock)
{
echo "There is insufficient free stock to satisfy your order.";
echo "<br>Available free stock is currently ";
echo $free_stock;
echo "<br>Your order HAS NOT been updated, please try again.";
include ("showTrolley.php");
}

I am using Dreamweaver which normally codes PHP in blue. However everything after the > in the if statement appears in black as though there is a syntax error.
As a point of interest it does work the other way around:
if ($free_stock < $new_qty)

Am I using the correct syntax for greater than?

Wierd.

Answer would help me convince myself I'm not going mad!

Regards

[Anon]

Ah, but does it run? If it does then it's Dreamweaver's problem!

I think Dreamweaver just does anything between < and > as blue.

If you want syntax highlighting for your PHP (and HTML, and Javascript, and VBScript, and Perl, and SQL, and C, and Java) I use HTML-Kit, www.chami.com/html-kit/. It's not WYSIWYG, and its workspace rendering feels slow, but it works very nicely (except on my Win95 machine for some ungodly reason) and spectacularly extensible.

[Anon]

No I still can't seem to get it to run - well correctly anyway.
The page doesn't generate any errors but the condition in the if statement never gets executed?
Any suggestions?

Thanks

[tomhath]

What happens when you echo the two variables you are comparing. My guess is that the problem is somewhere else.