Question

I’m having trouble with a javascript function that needs to take a global variable into account.

It’s kind of a control mechanism I would like to implement, but I can’t seem to get it right.

Here’s the relevant code

<script type="text/javascript">
var active = 0;

function SetEndTime(lngOpenPersonID,lngToDoID){
if(active = 0){
    alert('Time has been stopped');
}
else{
    var strURL = 'blabla';
    CallAJAXURL(strURL);
}
active = 0;
}
function SetStartTime(lngToDoID,lngToDoItemID,bitCountsForTotal){
if(active = 1){
    alert('Time has been started');
}
else{
    var strURL = 'blabla';
    CallAJAXURL(strURL);
}
active = 1;
}

When I call SetStartTime without doing anything else, I always get the alert. Is there something wrong with my syntax?

Answer 1

its not (alert = 1) .. its ( alert == 1 ).. your condition says its always true — your assigning alert to 1