if is all screwy

[kaos057]

for some reason when i try to use an if statement, rather than checking if it is true or not, it changes the value.

If I type:

if ($blah = 'someword') {

$blahblah = 0;

}

say $blah = 'anotherword' when it gets to this line, it changes the value of $blah to 'someword' then proceeds to making the value of $blahblah to '0'

Is there something I'm doing wrong or something I'm forgetting?

[nemonoman]

if($var == 'someval) will fix this

==

not just

=

== is a test for equalty

= is a value assignment

This is a painfully easy typo to make IMO, and it takes days sometimes for me to find it.