On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 02:55:07PM -0700, Ben Dunlap wrote:

> > In my navigation.php include file, I had if ($page = about) echo href....
> > I changed it to if ($page == about) echo.... and it suddenly
> worked! Imagine
> > that...
> 
> Another good case for putting the variable on the right side of "==":
> 
>    if ("about" == $page)
> 
> Then if you mis-type "==" as "=", PHP will fail immediately with a parse
> error.
> 
> It feels a little weird but if it saves a lot of head-desk moments it's
> probably worth it. Now if only I could get into the habit myself...

This is common practice for a lot of C programmers for exactly this
reason.

Paul

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