help with conditional phrase

[paulcj2]

I generated a variable by means of a select statement in a form.

    <label for="outcome">How do you want to move the needle?</label>
    <select class="medium" name="outcome" size="1" id="outcome">
        <option value="revenue" selected="selected">Increased revenue</option>
        <option value="cost">Reduce costs</option>
        <option value="customer">Customer satisfaction</option>
        <option value="other">Other – Details below</option>
    </select>

In the action script, I captured the variable in

  $outcome = $_POST['outcome']; 

Now I want to display various information depending on the value of 'outcome'. I have tried

if ($outcome=="revenue") 
    {
    ?>
        <p>Information about revenue.</p>
    } 

which doesn't work. What am I missing?

[Jake Arkinstall]

Generally, it's easier to stay in PHP and echo, rather than coming out of PHP:

<?php
switch(strtolower($outcome)){ //the StrToLower is there to compare the string case-insensitively
    case 'revenue':
        echo '<p>Information about Revenue</p>';
    break;
    case 'blah':
        echo '<p>Blahhhhhhh</p>';
    break;
}

However, if you're always going to have the same style of title for every outcome:

printf('<p>Information about %s</p>', $outcome); 

[paulcj2]

Thanks. I went with the first option.

[paulcj2]

The following code is not working correctly.

echo "<h3>You said <em> $outcome</em></h3>";
switch ($outcome){
    case $outcome = "Increase revenues";
        echo "<p>Revenue blah, blah, blah.</p>";
        break;
    case $outcome = "Reduce costs":
        echo "<p>Reduce costs blah, blah, blah</p>";
        break;    
    case $outcome = "Improve customer satisfaction":
        echo "<p>Customer satisfaction blah, blah, blah</p>";
        break;    
    case $outcome = "Other":
        echo "<p>Other blah, blah, blah</p>";
        break;    
} 

When $outcome is set to "Reduce costs", this part works correctly

echo "<h3>You said <em> $outcome</em></h3>" 

i.e. $outcome displays "Reduce costs".

However the case part displays

<p>Revenue blah, blah, blah.</p>

, which should be

<p>Reduce costs blah, blah, blah</p>

Please advise.

[spiderling]

You have a semicolon at the end of that line instead of a colon, iti isn't necessary to have the $outcome = .

    case "Increase revenues": 

[baileylo]

The following code is not working correctly.

echo "<h3>You said <em> $outcome</em></h3>";
switch ($outcome){
    case $outcome = "Increase revenues";
        echo "<p>Revenue blah, blah, blah.</p>";
        break;
    case $outcome = "Reduce costs":
        echo "<p>Reduce costs blah, blah, blah</p>";
        break;    
    case $outcome = "Improve customer satisfaction":
        echo "<p>Customer satisfaction blah, blah, blah</p>";
        break;    
    case $outcome = "Other":
        echo "<p>Other blah, blah, blah</p>";
        break;    
} 

you need to set the case value so

echo "<h3>You said <em> $outcome</em></h3>";
switch ($outcome){
    case "Increase revenues";
        echo "<p>Revenue blah, blah, blah.</p>";
        break;
    case "Reduce costs":
        echo "<p>Reduce costs blah, blah, blah</p>";
        break;    
    case  "Improve customer satisfaction":
        echo "<p>Customer satisfaction blah, blah, blah</p>";
        break;    
    case "Other":
        echo "<p>Other blah, blah, blah</p>";
        break;    
} 

Would Work, you might also want to add in at the end generally

[PHP] default:
echo "<p>Invalid input selection</p>"; break;

[paulcj2]

Thanks. It's working great now.