Output of $var problem...

okay i had made sumtin like this a long time ago... and it worked.


lost the file so i gotta do it again...

anyways i have this code which will go into a lil news script.:

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             if($row['postcount'] >= '100'){ $usertitle = "noob2"; }
            elseif($row['postcount'] >= '150'){ $usertitle = "noob3"; }
            elseif($row['postcount'] >= '200'){ $usertitle = "noob4"; }
            elseif($row['postcount'] >= '500'){ $usertitle = "noob5"; }
            elseif($row['postcount'] >= '1000'){ $usertitle = "noob6"; }
            elseif($row['postcount'] >= '1500'){ $usertitle = "noob7"; }
            elseif($row['postcount'] >= '2000'){ $usertitle = "noob8"; }
            elseif($row['postcount'] >= '2500'){ $usertitle = "noob9"; }
            elseif($row['postcount'] >= '3000'){ $usertitle = "noob10"; }
            else{ $usertitle = "noob"; } 


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so that if there postcount is greater then or equal to the #.. the $variable is changed.

for example

i have 500 posts.. yes im "noob2".

help me plz. thanks

Every post count that's greater than 3500 is also greater than 100. Since 100 comes first, it will always succeed and grab all later cases. You need to flip them around and start with the largest.

Oh, and this should go into the PHP forum.

If I were you I would use an array to store post counts and the name of the rank associated with the post count. It is then a lot easier to add new ones:

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$ranks = array(3000 => 'Power Poster',
               2000 => 'Addicted',
               1000 => 'Hyper',
               500 => 'Lively',
               100 => 'Member',
               0 => 'Noob');

$highest_rank = 0;

foreach($ranks as $count => $name) {
    if ($post_count >= (int) $count) {
        $highest_rank = $count;
    }
}

echo($ranks[$highest_count]); 


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Thanks.

I was thining of doing an array... but just kept forgetting the idea.


BTW... I thought i posted it in the PHP section.
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okay edit.

Ummm... this is prolly the "just woke up and im still tired and cant think" moment right now... but ... what am i doing wrong... im with 500 posts and another is with 4...

yet im lively and hes nuthin....


i modified the code like so...

plz tell me what im doing wrong.

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            $ranks = array(3000 => 'Power Poster',
                          2000 => 'Addicted',
                          1000 => 'Hyper',
                          500  => 'Lively',
                        100  => 'Member',
                          0     => 'Noob');
     
      $highest_rank = 0;

foreach($ranks as $count => $name) {
    if ($row['postcount'] >= (int) $count) {
        $highest_rank = $count;
    }
}

echo($ranks["$row[postcount]"]); 


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Get rid of the " in
echo($ranks["$row[postcount]"]);

But I don't think thats what you want still...
maybe echo($ranks[$highest_rank]); ?

with it


echo($ranks["$row[postcount]"]);

it echoed me as

lively

and him as (blank null nil nada neit no)

yet with

echo($ranks[$highest_rank]);

we all noobs... HEHE

I have a feeling you might need to make all the indexes text, indexes:

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 $ranks = array('3000' => 'Power Poster',
                          '2000' => 'Addicted',
                          '1000' => 'Hyper',
                          '500'  => 'Lively',
                        '100'  => 'Member',
                          '0'     => 'Noob'); 


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umm... call me a noob and slap my @$$..

If the obvious is there... it sure is hiding well.

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Originally Posted by PlaGuE

umm... call me a noob and slap my @$$..

If the obvious is there... it sure is hiding well.

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I am not sure what you are saying, so can I just slap you anyway :p

You just need to replace your array definition with this:

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  $ranks = array('3000' => 'Power Poster',
                          '2000' => 'Addicted',
                          '1000' => 'Hyper',
                          '500'  => 'Lively',
                        '100'  => 'Member',
                          '0'     => 'Noob'); 

$highest_rank = 0;

foreach($ranks as $count => $name) {
    if ($post_count >= (int) $count) {
        $highest_rank = $count;
    }
}

echo($ranks[(string) $highest_count]); 


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hmm...

i tried... many different variations to that...

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             $ranks = array(
                       3000 => 'Power Poster',
                          2000 => 'Addicted',
                          1000 => 'Hyper',
                          500  => 'Lively',
                        100  => 'Member',
                          0     => 'Noob'
                       );
     
      $highest_rank = 0;

foreach($ranks as $count => $name) { 
    if ($row['postcount'] >= (int) $count) { 
        $highest_rank = $count; 
    } 
} 

echo($ranks[(string) $highest_count]); 


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but all it gives me is a "blank" space. for each the users.

You havn't put the numbers inside strings.

Good point. By using integer indexes, the elements get re-ordered, I think.

I must be loosing it this week. I forgot to test that the current count is not lower than the highest rnake already found :blush:

The code below should work, of course, you need to change the variable names to suit:

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<?php
 $post_count = 999;

 $ranks = array('3000' => 'Power Poster',
                          '2000' => 'Addicted',
                          '1000' => 'Hyper',
                          '500'  => 'Lively',
                        '100'  => 'Member',
                          '0'     => 'Noob');

$highest_rank = 0;

foreach($ranks as $count => $name) {

    if (($post_count >= ((int) $count)) && ($count >= $highest_rank)) {
        $highest_rank = $count;
    }
}

echo($ranks[(string) $highest_rank]); 


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?>

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hey... Its no biggie. we all have "bad" days.

but with me its more bad "months".

cuz ive been at this for a month and finally got fed up n posted about it.