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The 3 different equals

Can anyone tell me why, when using the code below, I am getting redirected to elephant.com rather than seeing a ‘giraffe!

<?php
$foo="giraffe";
if($foo="elephant"){
header("location:http://www.elephant.com");
exit();
}else{
 echo $foo;}
?>

Thanks for looking

J

Answer 1

if($foo="elephant")

You’re assigning $foo here, rather than comparing it; you should be doing:

if($foo=="elephant")

The result of an assignment operation is the value that’s just been assigned; in this case, ‘elephant’ is evaluating to true.