Re: Logic of conditionals and the ( ) operators

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On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 10:21 -0800, Allen McCabe wrote:

> In a nutshell:
> 
> Will this work?
> 
> if ($perm == (11 || 12))
> 
> 
> Explanation:
> 
> I am laying the groundwork for a photo viewing system with a private and
> public mode, and additionally if an admin is logged in, there is an
> additional level of permission. I came up with a number system to make it
> easier (and is calcualted by a class) so now, instead of checking against
> the $mode variable, if the user is logged in, and then what their user level
> is if they are logged in, I just check against some numbers (the class
> evaluates all those conditions and assigns the appropriate number a single
> permission variable, $perm.


That equates to if($perm == true) as 11 in this case translates to true
(being a positive integer) The code never needs to figure out the ||
part, as the first part is true.

I think what you'd want to do is possibly:

if($perm == 11 || $perm == 12)

Thanks,
Ash
http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk



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