show everything except these entries

[Dillenger]

why doesn't this code work? It works if I only want to SHOW certain entries, but not if I want to BLOCK certain entries:

if (($catID_match !== "123") OR ($catID_match != "124") OR ($catID_match !== "125") OR ($catID_match !== "126") OR ($catID_match !== "127") OR ($catID_match !== "128") OR ($catID_match !== "129") OR ($catID_match !== "130") OR ($catID_match !== "131")){

	echo"<tr>";
		echo"<td width='150' valign=top>";
			echo "<span class='headers3'>$catID_match $name</span>";
		echo"</td>";
		echo"<td width='8' valign=top>";			
			echo"<span class='bodytext'>:-</span><br>";
		echo"</td>";
		echo"<td valign=top>";			
			echo"<span class='bodytext'>$detail</span><br>";
		echo"</td>";
	echo"</tr>";
	}

[kingbear]

you should replace the "OR"s with "AND"s

[Dillenger]

hehe, thanks DOH! smacks head

Just a formatting question... is there anyway that I could format that statement better, so that I dont have to have a bunch of AND's... like i could just list the numbers to check in one check?

[kingbear]

I'd do it like this:

// Put all restricted id's in this array
$restrict = array(123, 124, 125);

if(!in_array($catID_match, $restrict)) {
echo"<tr>";
            echo"<td width='150' valign=top>";
                echo "<span class='headers3'>$catID_match $name</span>";
            echo"</td>";
            echo"<td width='8' valign=top>";            

                echo"<span class='bodytext'>:-</span><br>";
            echo"</td>";
            echo"<td valign=top>";            

                echo"<span class='bodytext'>$detail</span><br>";
            echo"</td>";
        echo"</tr>";
        }

This makes it a lot cleaner.

[Dillenger]

Thanks, you rule! 🙂