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PHP PHP Arrays and Control Structures PHP Conditionals Operators

Brion Ballard
Brion Ballard
3,807 Points
Posted by Brion Ballard
Brion Ballard
3,807 Points

Use the negation operator to check that $role is NOT EQUAL to "admin"? I am not sure of what I am doing wrong here.

I've tried a few different things, did some searching and I'm still not sure what I'm doing wrong.

index.php 
<?php
$username = 'sketchings';
//Available roles: author, editor, admin
$role = 'editor';

//Check for username & role

if ($username = true && $role != admin) {
    echo "You do not have access to this page. Please contact your administrator.";
}
?>

1 Answer

Mikkel Rasmussen
Mikkel Rasmussen
31,772 Points
Mikkel Rasmussen
Mikkel Rasmussen
31,772 Points

Hey to check to see a variable is set you use the function isset($variable) and you need to check that the role is not equal to admin you use the not equal comparison after that you need to change admin into a string there you either adds double quotes or single quotes..

There is also something wrong with your echo sentence you have a spelling mistake at the last word it's administratior and not administrator.

http://php.net/manual/en/function.isset.php

So the code should have looked like this:

if (isset($username) && $role != 'admin') {
echo "You do not have access to this page. Please contact your administratior.";
}