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Mira
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Reputation: 111

comparison of two words in php always returning true

I am new in php and trying to compare two variable in it. I have tried like below but its always returning true even its not matching. 

<?php
$messages ="test";
if ($messages = "Support" || "support") {
echo "matching";
}
else{
echo "not matching"; }

?>

Let me know if someone can help me for solve it. Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 49

Answers (2)

user9639650
user9639650

Reputation: 82

You are using = which is used for assignment, yo can use == or === (strict comparison) to compare strings.

Upvotes: 1

Sakura Kinomoto
Sakura Kinomoto

Reputation: 1884

You're doing a assignation.

On PHP, = sign are assignation one. For comparision, you need to use ==.

On your current operation, you're doing a comparision, and then, an assignation. "a" || "A" is equal to 1 (true). Then, you're assigning true to your variable $messages.

Change the line to:

if ($messages == "Support" || $messages == "support")

Upvotes: 1

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