how to deal with bool?

[Jassim Rahma]

Hi, I have the following code to check if the user is_administrator then show the two menu items, otherwise of course it won't show... kindly simple! but the problem is.... when I uploaded the pages to my web host, even if the user is not administrator the menu items are shown! the value for is_administrator in MySQL is a bit = 0 but when I do a var_dump I get bool(true) although I get the correct var_dump and behavior on my local pc string(1) "0" this is the menu items:

<button id="btnManageUsers" type="button" style="width: 100%;">Manage Users</button>
<button id="btnNewUser" type="button" style="width: 100%;">New User</button>

and this is the is_administrator:

while ($mysql_row = $mysql_query->fetch())
{
$_SESSION["blended_learning_user_name"] = $mysql_row["user_name"];
$_SESSION["blended_learning_is_administrator"] = $mysql_row["is_administrator"];

exit(header("Location: " . $\_SESSION\["blended\_learning\_domain\_name"\] . "mypage"));

}

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[vbmike]

I think you need to use the '==' double equals sign to check for equality. One equals sign will assign the value to the variable.

vbmike

[Daniel Lieberwirth BrainInBlack]

Well, your problem is that you assign the value true to $_SESSION["blabla"]. I.e. it cannot work! SolutionA:

SolutionB:

The difference between SolutionA and B is, that B also checks if $_SESSION["bla"] is of the same type as true, i.e. bool/boolean.