Php If statement not working as expected - php

Question

I am making an email script in php. What happens is a mysql query is made, and the output of this is stored in the following strings :
$personal1 = $userinfo->salutation;
$personal2 = $userinfo->surname;
$business = $userinfo->businessname;
Next I have an if statement, this checks to see if the surname is blank, if it is, it then substitutes the salutation + surname with the business name. The problem I am having is that the emails keep being sent out with Dear, Business Name , even if the surname field is not blank, I am not sure what I am doing wrong with the following code for it to do this though ?.
if ($personal2=="") {
$name = $business; }
else {
$name = $personal1 . ' ' . $personal2;};
EDIT >>>>>>>>>>
If I echo out the contents of the strings I get :
personal1 = Mr
personal2 = Johnson
business = Hat Trick Media
Edit 2 >>>>>>>
This is some of the code, it is then passed onto the mailer.
<?php
$cf_uid = $_GET['token'];
$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM hqfjt_chronoforms_data_addupdatelead WHERE cf_uid = '$cf_uid'") or die(mysql_error());
$userinfo = mysql_fetch_object($query);
$personal2 = $userinfo->surname;
$personal1 = $userinfo->salutation;
$business = $userinfo->businessname;
?>
<?php
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM hqfjt_chronoforms_data_addemailtemplate");
while ($row = mysql_fetch_object($result)) {
echo '<tr class="table-row">';
echo '<th class="template-name">';
echo '<div class="namerow">';
$id = $row->cf_uid;
$form_id = $row->form_id;
$query = mysql_query("SELECT `$form_id` FROM email_history WHERE cf_id = '$user_id'") or die(mysql_error());
$datesent = mysql_fetch_object($query);
$date = $datesent->$form_id;
if ($personal2=="") {
$name = $business; }
else {
$name = $personal1 . ' ' . $personal2;};

Answer 1

Is your code a valid statement? Your code structure is awful. Instead of...
if ($personal2=="") {
$name = $business; }
else {
$name = $personal1 . ' ' . $personal2;};
Use
if ($personal2=="") {
$name = $business;
}
else {
$name = $personal1 . ' ' . $personal2;
}
You seem to have an extra ; that you dont need.
You also dont seem to close the while loop in the code you posted...

Answer 2

Ok, I have found out what the problem was, $name was coming in the session from the previous page and overwriting $name on this page, I have now set it to destroy the session before it loads this page and it seems to have sorted it now, thanks for everyone's help :-)