if statement question

[Mikemcs]

why does the following = True for this URL www.mysite.com/?test

if ($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] = 'Detail=News&Department=66')

[FrozNic]

you're setting $_server['query_string'] equal to 'Detail=News&Department=66

your not checking the value againsts query string, your setting the value, use == to check the value 🙂 thats why it's saying it's true, because of course it's going to say true if your setting it to it! 🙂

[Mikemcs]

if I use == then it has to be exact I need the condition to be true even if the querry
is 'Detail=News&Department=66&morestuff=Yes&evenmorestuff=Yes'

[FrozNic]

im not sure i understand what you're saying.. u want the value of $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] to be equal to whatever you put in the address bar but you want to use an if clause to see if it's equal to itself? maybe post some more code? thx

[Mikemcs]

what I am tring to do is look for a wide range of varibales strings that whould all include 'Detail=News&Department=66' It could be in the start of the string or toward the end

[bad76]

Try this:

if ( substr_count ( $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] , 'Detail=News&Department=66' ) > 0 )

see you.

[rpanning]

If I understand right you just want to make sure the query string is right. You could varify it by every field using $GET['field']. Also, if you want to varify it you must use == not =. And, === is strickter than ==, look at the php docs here. Hope this helps! 🙂

<?php 
if ($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] == '') {
    // The query string is correct
} else {
    // The query string is NOT correct
}
?>

OR

<?php 
if ($_GET['Detail'] == 'News' && $_GET['Department'] == '66' && $_GET['morestuff'] == 'Yes' && $_GET['evenmorestuff'] == 'Yes') {
    // The query string is correct
} else {
    // The query string is NOT correct
}
?>