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James Coles
2,449 PointsConditionals Confused
Question... What will be displayed in the web browser?
$username = "Treehouse"; if ($username) { if ($username != "Treehouse") { echo "Hello $username"; } } else { echo "You must be logged in"; }
I thought it would have been "You must be logged in" but it says the answer is "Hello Treehouse". Is this correct.
Surely the username is equal to tree else so it would be the else statement?
1 Answer
andren
28,558 PointsAre you sure it marked "Hello Treehouse" as correct?
When I went though the test the correct answer was "Nothing will be displayed", and that is actually (based on the code) the correct answer.
You are correct that $username is equal to "Treehouse" so the second if statement would not run, however your conclusion that the else statement would therefore run is incorrect. The else statement is connected to the first if statement, the second if statement nested within it is entirely independent of the if/else statements above it. Whether it runs or not has no effect on the else statement in the layer above it.
The else statement only cares about whether the if statement that it is connected to ran or not, since the first if ran the else won't run, even when the nested if statement does not run either. Thus in the end nothing is printed to the screen.