$_GET is changing by it self

[sstonge]

Hey,

I am using the get method to submit my form

on the receiving page it has this in the address

search_results.php?tosearch_string=find&page_count=3

the page_count is changing to 1,

I put echo $GET['page_count']; as the first bit of code, then at the end of the page I put echo $GET['page_count']; again.

at the top of the page it is 3, at the end it is 1. There is no where in my code that sets the value of $_GET['page_count'] it only used it after the = never before.

anyone have any ideas what might be going on?

Thanks!

[swr]

You probably have something like this:

if ($_GET['page_count'] = 1) {
    // do something
}

Single = instead of double == in an if statement is a fairly common typo.

[Kudose]

Why not just call it once?

[sstonge]

should that make a differance?