Date: 09/25/07 (PHP Community)    Keywords: php

i'm new to php (and this community) and just started taking an intro to php class to improve my skills. anyway, i made a mistake in some of my code at one point i wrote...

$counter = $counter++

to increment one instead of just...

$counter++

well, i had this going with a while() statement and it didn't work because $counter wasn't being incremented because $counter = counter++ isn't correct. but why is that? it still should increment, right? if you write $counter = $counter++ in the c language (well, with the appropriate syntax, as my instructor tried) it works just fine. he couldn't find any post of this php bug either. any thoughts?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/587454.html