[RESOLVED] Am I Going crazy?

Ryan_Sanders

So I have been out of coding for a little while, but I know this should work.

Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong? LOL Has PHP updated and banned this?

So basically. I have a website with a horizontal navigation bar across the top. When you click on a certain category, I am making it where a subcategory list appears below that bar.

I have the design how I want, but when I enter the simple code, it won't work.

<? if (($_GET['id']) == "aboutme") { ?>
the div tags and stuff go here
<? } ?>

That is it. I have tried to do it with a simple $id == "" instead of $_GET['id']

I have tried doing <?php .. but no matter what I do, that subcategory bar ALWAYS appears. I only want it to appear when a link has been chosen... gah
lol

Help?

dagon

view source, is the php visible?

always use the full php tags <?php and you have an extra set of() - not that they will effect your ode.

Ryan_Sanders

Oddly enough it is.. hmm. I am doing this on my local network using EasyPHP.... But I have other php scripts going..

If I use <?php.. I get this error:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in C:\Program Files (x86)\EasyPHP-5.3.6.0\www\Untitled-1.php on line 336

Edit:
Ok making some progress.. but now getting this:
Notice: Undefined index: id in C:\Program Files (x86)\EasyPHP-5.3.6.0\www\Untitled-1.php on line 301

Undefined index?? What? LOL.. I've always written script like this. If $id doesn't equal EXAMPLE, then do not show this html

Ryan_Sanders

Fixed it, here is the final code:

<?php 
if (isset($_GET['page']) == "about") { ?>
divs, page content, etc
<?php } ?>

I had to look on google to find it.. but supposedly, now with PHP 5+.. You cant work off variables which have not been defined, no matter if they need to be or not.

dagon

its not the php version issue, you would of got the same notice in php 4, its just what level of error reporting you have been using

bradgrafelman

Your if() statement still isn't correct - see my post here since you have the same problem (just replaces references of 'empty' to 'isset' in my post).