Simple but frustrating

[sleepy_kiwi]

Background: Client using a third party payment gateway for ecom site. They return a string of variables - one being Result, which can be OK, Fail or Error.

Problem: Whilst I can echo and print $Result I cannot use it in a if statement.

Thought I had a reasonable knowledge of PHP but...

[dubmeier]

not sure I understand the problem. Can't you just do the following?

if ($Result == "OK") {
do one thing
} elseif ($Result == "Fail") {
do another
} elseif ($Result == "Error") {
log the error
}

[sleepy_kiwi]

Thats what I've tried - however it just doesn't seem to work.

[BitBanger]

Put:

$Result = trim($Result); 

just prior to the comparison. Chances are there are either trailing spaces or control characters in the string.