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PHP

Posted by Brian van Vlymen
Brian van Vlymen
12,637 Points

working with get variables I thought thanks does not matter if i put Thanks

I thought "thanks" does matter if i put "Thanks". it goes to else block. because Thanks which is true it will tell you the paragraph but its not. strange? why?

<?php if (isset($_GET["status"]) AND $_GET["status"] == "Thanks") { ?> <p>Thanks for the email! I’ll be in touch shortly!</p> <?php } else { ?>

Our code checks if the status variable has a value of thanks, it outputs this thank you message

3 Answers

Tuomo Kankaanpää
Tuomo Kankaanpää
13,574 Points

Hi Brian,

I'm not sure if I understood your question right but the check you are performing for status is case-sensitive. Are you sure that when you set the GET variable "status" that it is with capital T?

 $_GET["status"] == "Thanks"

is not the same as 

 $_GET["status"] == "thanks"

If you just want to compare that the strings are same regardless if they are upper- or lowercase you can use strtolower() -function. It converts all characters in a string to lower case. Then you would write something like this:

<?php
if (isset($_GET["status"]) AND strtolower($_GET["status"]) == "thanks") {
  echo "Thanks for the email! I'll be in touch shortly!";
} else {

}
?>

Notice also that I used "echo" to display the text so the code is just a bit more pleasurable to read. :)

Hope this helps!

Br Tuomo

Dai Phong
Dai Phong
20,395 Points
Dai Phong
Dai Phong
20,395 Points

Try to use "===" in your if stamment

Brian van Vlymen
Brian van Vlymen
12,637 Points
Brian van Vlymen
Brian van Vlymen
12,637 Points

I did not realized the "thanks" value is the case sensitive. The "===" is very strictly of case sensitive it must be match compare of case sensitive but its same as ==. I was searching in my code there were three found thanks words in there and i decided to change the https header("Location: talktous.php?status=Thanks"); exit; } ?>
it does making sense condition is true output the echo not else block thanks!