stupid javascript question Please help...

Hi,
This is probably a stupid question but I don't know much of these languages.

I have a variable named "myname"

I want to check if the variable is empty .
If yes then I have to write the following:
var myname= "jeet";
If no then do nothing .

What will be the code for this ?
Actually a function is sending a value to this variable but if the value is an empty string then I want to have "jeet" in it .

Thank you
jeet

 

if (! myname) {
   myname="jeet";
}

Code (markup):

That ought to work if the variable truly contains a null value.

cheers,

gary

 

Hi,
That's not working ...
I think there is another bug in the script I am writing.
I might not be able to do this using javascript.
Later in the code I am putting this value in a PHP variable named $myn but that's not empty.
It's something like this :
$myn= "my name is ".$c;

So here's what I tried .
code:
<?php
$m = "my name is ";
// comparing $myn to $m
if $myn = $m
{
$myn= "myname is jeet";
}
?>

But that keeps giving me a parssing error.

I am checking if the value of $myn is the same as $m and if yes then $myn is set to a complete string specified by me else nothing is done.
Can you suggest something here also?

Thank you
jeet

 

For one thing, if $myn = $m would always evaluate as true if you had remembered the (). Do, if ($myn == $m).

In this case, you should do two tests;

if (empty($myn)) {
   echo "Houston, we have a problem.";
}
else if ($myn == $m) {
   $myn = $m . " Jeet";
}

Code (markup):

Why not test $c?

cheers,

gary

 

Excellent Brilliant Superb!!!
Very cool !
I was struggling with this since last evening . It's been like 24 hours now...

Thank you a million times for the help!
Best regards
jeet