if statement still won't work

hey guys, for clarification: in fact you're ALL right ;)

with single equal you're assigning a value

$name = "Mike";

and with the double equals you're checking a value

if ($name == "Mike") {
  //do something
}

however, even with the correct code currently the challenge will give you an error back - that's unfortunately a known issue and was already reported to the team, so currently there's no way to complete the challenge.

Daniel,

The issue here is in what you're trying to check inside your if statement. Currently, you're using one equals sign, which is used for assigning values. You need to use at least two equals signs, which is the operator used to check equality. To illustrate:

You currently have this:

if($name = 'Mike') {
}

That has one equals sign, thus you're trying to assign a value to a variable. This is not what we want inside a conditional check. Rather, you want:

if($name == 'Mike') {
}

...and then you should be good to go!

Hope this helps!

Erik

Hi Daniel,

I fixed your post so we could see your code better. You have an error in your code. You want to compare if $name is equal to "Mike". To compare you use double equals.

One equal is used to attribute a value to a variable. Hope this helps.

Hi Daniel,

Try using:

if ($name == 'Mike') {

}

instead of the following to compare:

if ($name='Mike') {

}

Thanks -Rich

Hi Daniel,

This challenge seems to be bugged. I typed the following code in the challenge:

<?php
  $name = "Mike";
if($name == "Mike"){

}
?>

I get an error : Cannot see if statement. The treehouse team needs to be notified of this.

still won't work. even with 2 equal signs

so just to be clear i put $name = "Mike"; if ($name =="Mike") {

} And i get the error "I can't see your if statement"