help with eval

[Boofo]

LOL I told you I was feeling stupid on this one. Your code works fine.

I forgot to change the variable in the getinfo template to $getinfo_zodiac like you had it in the code. I've been tearing myself up over this for almost 3 hours now and it was there slapping me in the face the whole time. It's usually the simple stuff that messes us up, huh? Thanks for all for the help. I owe you one, my friend.

[g-force2k2]

lol Boofo don't worry i probably do it waaay more then you damn parse errors for me but its all good... i knew that the code should've worked one way or another just glad its all good... just another usual day of hacking for us eh? ^^

g-force2k2

[Boofo]

I need to ask you, for my own curiosity...why couldn't I slip the eval statement in before I had it at zodiacsign="". They do that with the birthday variable and other ones. How come that won't work here? Because of all of the else if statements? I'd like to understand this a little better.

[g-force2k2]

well its not that you can't do it that way... but with each elseif that you have and you want to define it before then $zodiacsign=""; then you'd have to use the same eval station after each esleif... kinda like this:

PHP Code:

 } else if (($bday[2]>=20 and $bday[1]==4) or ($bday[2]<=20 and $bday[1]==5)) {
  $zodiacsign="Taurus";
  eval(" 
} else if (($bday[2]>=21 and $bday[1]==5) or ($bday[2]<=20 and $bday[1]==6)) {
  $zodiacsign="Gemini";
  eval(" 


etc... so after defining each zodiacsign you'd have to eval the template but i just avoided that by waiting after the $zodiacsign=""; so that i could define that one as not eval the template and then everything other then "" would eval the template... hope i make any sense :P

g-force2k2

[Boofo]

Ahhh, ok, that makes sense now. Instead of defining it twelve times, by waiting until after the zodicasign="", you can basically just save some code and do it once, right? So, then for each else statement you have to do an eval if you want to use a template or do it like we did here. I almost went the route of defining the eval after each else if but I knew there had to be an easier way to do it, I just wasn't sure how. I should have known that. Duuhhh!!! Believe it or not, that is the first time I have run into more than one else statement. LOL Again, thank you very much for guiding me through this. I had another piece of code with 12 else statements and I used to same type of thing that you showed me here for it and it worked great!

[g-force2k2]

np Boofo always glad to help someone like you

g-force2k2

[Boofo]

Does that mean I'm special? I get to ride the little yellow bus to school?

[Neo]

You mean you dont anymore
Now I am the only one :dead:

[Boofo]

Move over! After my little fiasco here and the birthday problem (don't even ask, and gforce, that is our little secret ) it looks like I'm back on the bus.

Originally posted by Neo
You mean you dont anymore
Now I am the only one :dead:

[Neo]

YAY ^_^
I am sure susy will be drooling all over you once again