Small code to select a file /In urgent need off assistance

[Marc]

I am trying to create a small code to select genders on my website, so that when they are male or female they get served another page than when they are couple.
Can anyone help me on this please.
This code is not selecting the couple part and always serves the create_profile.pml page instead of login_prob.pml.
Any Advice is appreciated.
Thanks

<?
	$select = "SELECT gender from dt_members";
	if ($gender = 'Male, Female')
         {
      include 'engine/pages/create_profile.pml';
         }
	else if ($gender = 'couple')
		 {		 
      include 'engine/pages/login_prob.pml';
      	} 
?>

[bad76]

Hi,
"=" operator is an assignement! To compare two values you have to use the boolean operator, "==".

So your code is "... if($gender == 'Male, Female')

And I think 'Male' and 'Female' are two distinct gender, rigth?
You need to check first one, then two:

... if($gender == 'Male') ... if($gender == 'Female') ...

Or better you can link this two if() with 'or'...

... if(($gender == 'Male') || ($gender == 'Female'))...

But what really you need is to get a look at the manual and to learn from begin...

Logical operators

Control structures

see you

[Marc]

My code now says:

 <? 
    $select = "SELECT DISTINCT gender from dt_members"; 
    if(($gender == 'Male') || ($gender == 'Female'))  

         { 
      include 'engine/pages/create_profile.pml'; 
         } 
    else if (($gender == 'Couple') 
         {         

      include 'engine/pages/login_prob.pml'; 
          }  

?>

and none of it is working anymore.

[bad76]

$select is nothing.

You have to connect to a database, then fetch the data and retrieve the right gender. After all this you can check and include.

For mysql usage look the examples in the manual at www.php.net/mysql.

see you

[Marc]

Thanks, but i know how to use a mysql ;-)
The file i am using is integrated in an engine with a bunch of pml files so not every file needs to be setup with the database settings.

[bad76]

Ok. But problem is the same:
after $select you have to assign a value to $gender.

However to debug write this:

if(($gender == 'Male') || ($gender == 'Female'))   

{  

      include 'engine/pages/create_profile.pml';  

} else if (($gender == 'Couple')  

{          

      include 'engine/pages/login_prob.pml';  

} else die("Error:<br>gender was:$gender <br>")

I hope this helps