[Resolved] Value is changing??

[sstonge]

Hi, anyone know why my the value of #page_number keeps changing?

I get it from the url using:
$page_number = $_GET['page_count'];

It works and is equal to 3 when it is first set, but after the rest of my code is run it is equal to 1?

I won't post all my code caise it's long, but here are the only section that $page_number shows up in my code.

$page_number = $_GET['page_count'];

if ($page_number = 1){
	$counter = ($page_number * 10) - 10;
}else{
	$counter = ($page_number * 10) - 9;
}

$number_count = ($page_number * 10) - 9;
$stop_count = ($page_number * 10);

Why is is it getting set to 1??

[Kudose]

if statements require the double ==

so try this:

$page_number = $_GET['page_count']; 

if ($page_number == 1){ 
    $counter = ($page_number * 10) - 10; 
}else{ 
    $counter = ($page_number * 10) - 9; 
} 

$number_count = ($page_number * 10) - 9; 
$stop_count = ($page_number * 10);

[bubblenut]

$pagenumber = 1 is setting the variable $pagenumber to 1 it will never return false because php will always be able to set $pagenumber to the value 1 what you want is to compare the contents of $pagenumber with the integer 1 by using $pagenumber == 1. Wow, take a breath Bubble. All that in one sentance with no comma. My English language teacher would cry if she saw that. Oh well, let the tears roll.
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[sstonge]

Thanks! That worked...

I didn't know by using = in an if statment it could change the value. Will that happen with strings aswell?

[bubblenut]

Yes, it's rarely very usefull.
In most cases you want to know if it didn't happen and then you can use the or syntax like in

$res=mysql_query($sql) or die('There was an error in the sql');
//which is the same as doing
if(!$res=mysql_query($sql)) {
  die('There was an error in the sql');
}

HTH
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