$row variable help

[unknown gamer]

Sorry for asking for so much help but I have a hard time learning from somethings, I learn better when someone explains how to do something, which is why I come here.Well I have a variable I guess: $row['status'] I want to set that as a variable $status or something. Right now I have a page echoing all the users and there names linking to there profile, but I am trying to make a check so if there status is moderator or administrator do this. I tried $status= administrator;if $row['status']= administrator{echo worked;}else{echo didn't work;}I bet that is wrong because $row['status'] is moderator and administrator... so I don't think I'm properly specifying which user i'm checking for...so it is confused (is my guess) but is there some sort of way to *unpack* this variable or something so you can check if there status is administrator for each and every user then do something if there status is administrator or not?

[jlhaslip]

$status = 0; // set to zero/false early in your code/* ... do your mysql call here */$row['status'] = "admin";if ($row['status'] == "admin") {$status = 1; // if an admin, set $status to one/true}/* do more stuff */if ($status) {  // if $status is trueecho 'worked';  // status is on/true}else {echo 'failed';  // status is off/false}

[Jesdisciple]

$status= administrator;

$row['status'] = "admin";

Why would you retrieve data from a database only to use a constant value anyway? Unless I'm being extremely dense, that needs to be removed.

[unknown gamer]

$status= administrator;

$row['status'] = "admin";

Why would you retrieve data from a database only to use a constant value anyway? Unless I'm being extremely dense, that needs to be removed.

I don't know, probably cause I'm new to PHP/mysql? jlhaslip yours worked but how do I know which user it is on?http://gamingsite.byethost13.com/login/users.phpThere are more users, how do i know what user it is saying it worked for, or how would i get it to check it for each user?Cool, I got it to work, thanks.

[jlhaslip]

I didn't have a DB to make a call from, so I dummied the $row['status'] = "admin";Sorry, should have explained that.Glad you got it working.