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raymor · 10-28-2011, 08:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aric

I'm no expert, but that is wrong? You just assigned a value to $paid, which of course got rid of his PHP notices.

The PHP notices are displayed because $paid has no value set before the conditional.

Yep, $paid = false sets $paid to false.
The warning goes away because it's perfectly legal code, but it's also perfectly useless - it will always be true. To confirm, try this:

$paid = 1;
if ($paid = false) {
echo "oops, wrong answer";
}