Choose a string based on random number - php

Question

I am working on a bit of PHP and I've come upon a bit of issues.
I am using PHP to randomly choose a number from 1-360. I am trying to compare the answer to a list of value determined by range.
$NumberA = rand(0,180);
$NumberB = rand(0,180);
$NumberC = $NumberA + $NumberB;
if ($NumberC = range(0,21) {
$result = "Orange";
}
elseif ($NumberC = range(22,42) {
$result = "Red";
}
elseif ($NumberC = range(43,63) {
$result = "Blue";
}
//This goes on for a while ...
else {
$result = "Green";
}
echo = $result;
Anytime i do this, the result always assigns the value of "Orange" to $result .
Im sure im doing something wrong here, please help!

Answer 1

First of all, you used just one '=' to compare while it should have been '=='. Second range() generates an array and you cannot compare an integer to an array. Third why generating the range every single time when you can check that $NumberC lies between the minimum and the maximum numbers of the range?
Change your code to:
$NumberA = rand(0,180);
$NumberB = rand(0,180);
$NumberC = $NumberA + $NumberB;
if ($NumberC >= 0 && $NumberC <= 21) {
$result = "Orange";
} elseif ($NumberC >= 22 && $NumberC <= 42) {
$result = "Red";
} elseif ($NumberC >= 43 && $NumberC <= 63) {
$result = "Blue";
} else {
$result = "Green";
}
echo $result;
Shall work. Hope this helps.