[RESOLVED] ucwords overriding strtoupper?

[sys4dm1n]

<?php
$myCat = (isset($_REQUEST['cat']) ? strtoupper($_REQUEST['cat']) : '');
$myCat2 = (isset($_REQUEST['cat']) ? ucwords($_REQUEST['cat']) : '');
$myX = (isset($_REQUEST['x']) ? ucfirst($_REQUEST['x']) : '');
if ($page == home) {
	echo "Welcome to<br />
  <font size=\"4\">Systems</font></font>
  <br /><br />
  <img src=\"images/divider.gif\" width=\"306\" height=\"1\" alt=\"\" /></p>";
  } elseif (isset($_REQUEST['cat'])) {
	if ($_REQUEST['cat'] != $hsia ) {
		  	echo "$myCat2 > $myX <br />
  <font size=\"4\">Systems</font></font>
  <br /><br />
  <img src=\"images/divider.gif\" width=\"306\" height=\"1\" alt=\"\" /></p>";
	} else {
		  	echo "$myCat > $myX <br />
  <font size=\"4\">Systems</font></font>
  <br /><br />
  <img src=\"images/divider.gif\" width=\"306\" height=\"1\" alt=\"\" /></p>";
   }
  } elseif (!isset($_REQUEST['x'])) {
  	echo "Welcome to<br />
  <font size=\"4\">Systems</font></font>
  <br /><br />
  <img src=\"images/divider.gif\" width=\"306\" height=\"1\" alt=\"\" /></p>";
  } else {
  	echo "$myX <br />
  <font size=\"4\">Systems</font></font>
  <br /><br />
  <img src=\"images/divider.gif\" width=\"306\" height=\"1\" alt=\"\" /></p>";
  }
?>

When I try to have the value of $myCat2 be Like This and have $myCat be LIKE THIS in the following code:

 } elseif (isset($_REQUEST['cat'])) {
	if ($_REQUEST['cat'] != $hsia ) {
		  	echo "$myCat2 > $myX <br />
  <font size=\"4\">Systems</font></font>
  <br /><br />
  <img src=\"images/divider.gif\" width=\"306\" height=\"1\" alt=\"\" /></p>";
	} else {
		  	echo "$myCat > $myX <br />
  <font size=\"4\">Systems</font></font>
  <br /><br />
  <img src=\"images/divider.gif\" width=\"306\" height=\"1\" alt=\"\" /></p>";
   }
  }

It seems as if both $myCat and $myCat2 are set as $myCat2

Any suggestions / ideas?

Thanks!

[NogDog]

Where do you set $hsia? Are you sure it is ever equal to $_REQUEST['cat']? (If not, then you'll never hit the branch that outputs $myCat, only the first branch that outputs $myCat2.) In case of things linke newlines, you might want to trim() both values before comparing them.

[sys4dm1n]

$hsia is from the url (and it does work)

[tekky]

If you think strtoupper is overriding ucwords... a simple test is to move ucwords to the line ABOVE strtoupper so it happens first...

otherwise it would seem the only cause would be a logic problem

[NogDog]

sys4dm1n wrote:

$hsia is from the url (and it does work)

How do you know it works? Have you output the two values that you are comparing in the if statement to make absolutely sure (using var_dump() to ensure they are the exact same lenght)? (Sorry if I'm beating a dead horse here, but with the code I've seen so far it's the only thing I can think of.)

[sys4dm1n]

Resolved, I used tekky's suggestion and it did the trick, it must have been a logic problem.

Thanks NogDog for your suggestion also!

sys4dm1n

[tekky]

heh, well if you rewrote part of the logic to fix it then obviously it was 😉