Robby McDonald Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 Ok I decided to brush up on some functions and this one was giving me a hard time. Basically the if condition is printing the statement even though its not what the expression was asking for. I'm positive I am just missing something small, but I can't figure it out. <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xm1ns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/> <title>Counting Words...</title> </head> <body> <?php function count_words() { $totalwords = str_word_count($_POST['total']); $amountneeded = $_POST['amount']; $wordsneeded = $amountneeded - $totalwords; $extrawords = $totalwords - $amountneeded; if (isset($_POST['submitted'])) { if(str_word_count($_POST['totalwords']) <= $_POST['amountneeded']) { print "\nYou need $wordsneeded more words"; } else { print "\nYou wrote an extra $extrawords words"; } if(str_word_count($_POST['totalwords']) == $_POST['amountneeded']) { print "You hit the jackpot and got just as much words as you needed"; } } } ?> <form action="wordcount.php" method="post"> <p>Words Needed: <input type="text" name="amount" value="" /></p> <p>Copy and Paste your words:</p> <textarea name="total" rows="5" cols="30"></textarea> <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Count My Words" /> <input type="hidden" name="submitted" value="true" /> </form> <?php count_words(); ?> </body> </html> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.josh Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 In your conditions you are using $_POST[...] instead of $totalwords and $amountneeded p.s. - this is not a regex question. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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