help with if()

I did this once before but now I can't remember what it was I did to make it work.

I need do this


if($something islike $something){$show = 'that'};


What would I put where I have 'islike'?

Thanks

ok you are close to it


if($something == $something){$show = 'that';}

or

if($something == $something){$show = 'that';}else{$show = 'this';}

also as

if($something == $something){
$show = 'that';
}elseif($something == $something){
$show = 'other';
}else{
$show = 'this';
}

ok you are close to it


if($something == $something){$show = 'that';}

or

if($something == $something){$show = 'that';}else{$show = 'this';}


That doesn't really work when I was doing it that way.

I'm trying to get the end users device they are on. So I start with this.

Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 2_2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/5H11

I try to build it a few versions ahead so I can't just do like

Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 2_2_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/5H11

or

Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_0_0 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/5H11

Because the webkit version changes and I don't know what that will be. So I was trying to do it like.

if($device == 'iPhone 2_2_1'){$device_short = 'iPhone 2_2_1'}

Then I would build a few versions ahead so I don't have to update it the second a new firmware comes out.

But for some reason when I do == I end up getting the full device name or nothing at all not the shortened one. So thats why I figured it was something different for "is like" not $this == $this

You may use strstr() (http://php.net/strstr)

You might want to do that with regular expressions.


if (preg_match("/iPhone/", $device)) {$device_short = "iPhone";}

you have to tell the $device_short what it is to be in value or use a str_replace

$device_short = str_replace(" ", "", $device); // this will remove all spaces

is this what you are looking for?

You might want to do that with regular expressions.


if (preg_match("/iPhone/", $device)) {$device_short = "iPhone";}



Thank you, That worked just the way I wanted.