Jeff,
Everything you are doing sounds fine, and I don't see any logic problems
with the while loop. However, I really can't extrapolate any further
conclusion without more info. How are you determining that the if
statement is working? As long as this loop is running it should always
echo 'GO!!'.
Steven J. Walker
Walker Effects
www.walkereffects.com
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On Sunday, February 24, 2002, at 03:00 PM, Jeff Bearer wrote:
> It's all returning proper dates and the proper timestamps when I check
> them inside the loop. I'm formatting the dates in YYYY-MM-DD format and
> strtotime is returning the proper timestamps. I'm curious how can you
> say it's a problem with the dates when the if statement comparing the
> same expression as the while loop works properly?
>
>
>
> On Sun, 2002-02-24 at 13:09, Steven Walker wrote:
>> Jeff,
>>
>> The problem is most likely with incrementing $event_data. It's hard to
>> say without seeing the rest of the code.
>>
>>
>>> I have a problem while loop that isn't terminating when it's supposed
>>> to. I can't figure out what the problem is, if I run a comparison
>>> inside the while loop it matches as it should, but for some reason the
>>> same comparison isn't working as the while loop expression. I get an
>>> infinite loop when I run this code.
>>>
>>> while(strtotime($event_date) <= strtotime($end_date)){
>>> # test to see if the loop should of stopped.
>>> if(strtotime($event_date) <= strtotime($end_date))
>>> echo "GO!!\n";
>>> else echo "STOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!\n";
>>>
>>> /* omitted code that finds the next $event_date */
>>> }
>>>
>>>
>>>
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