Question

$nav_next_id = $page_id + 1;

$sql = "SELECT page FROM plm WHERE id = '$nav_next_id'"; {
$result = mysql_query($sql);
while ($next_page = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
    if($page_id + 1 > 24) 
    {
    $goto_next_page = 'some_page.php';
    } 
    else
    {
    $goto_next_page = $next_page['page_title'];     
    }
}
}   

Basically a very straight forward next page button on simple site. Using the ID in the MYSQL table I can determine the next page from the current page.

All works well until I come to the last page. Which is page 24.

So i put an if in the loop saying if the page is > 24 go to some_page.php.

I am echoing $goto_next_page in my html.

However nothing is echoed from page 24, all other pages work fine. What wrong with this script?

———UPDATE—————- THIS IS HOW I GOT IT TO WORK ——————

if($cur_page_id == 24) 
{
$goto_next_page = 'some_page.php';  
} 
else
{
$sql = "SELECT page FROM plm WHERE id = '$nav_next_id'"; {
$result = mysql_query($sql);
while ($next_page = mysql_fetch_array($result))
    {
        $goto_next_page = $next_page['page_title'];
    }
}
}   

Answer 1

Perhaps you meant to use the pre-increment operator:

if(++$page_id > 24)

Effectively, this means:

$page_id = $page_id + 1;

if($page_id > 24) {

This operator as well as its brother operator (the post-increment operator) both add 1 to the variable. However, the pre-increment operator adds one and then returns the new value. The post-increment operator, on the other hand, returns the value of the variable and then increments it by 1.

The reason why your code doesn’t work is that $page_id + 1 > 24 doesn’t increment $page_id so it always remains the same. This makes sense because if you did:

$a = $page_id + 1;

You wouldn’t expect $page_id to be incremented. You would expect $a to be 1 more than $page_id, but you’d expect $page_id to be the same.