ace’s blog

I’m a fucking idiot. That is all. For those of you non-geeks and other that are but just don’t want to look at a stupid error, now’s you chance to stop reading.

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Still here, GREAT! That’s stupendous.

Once upon a time, your’s truly (me) was having a problem formatting the birthdays of a contact being enterred. So to debug, I had the following code
<br /> if($user = ‘acedanger’) {<br /> echo $birthday;<br /> }<br />

The problem that I was trying to figure out was that no matter who was logged in and added a contact, it always showed up under user ‘acedanger’. Can anybody figure out why?? Too late. The code should have been:
<br /> if($user == ‘acedanger’) {<br /> echo $birthday;<br /> }<br />
if($user == ‘acedanger’) {
echo $birthday;
}
with the only difference being the extra ‘=’. A single ‘=’ sign in PHP is an assignment operator whereas double ‘==’ signs is a testing operator. (Notice how I am able to use technical terms in everyday speak! I’m a l33t programmer/moron). Anyway…that is all. Continue on your way, not being a moron like myself!