Why is my method returning false?

Question

I am trying to create an instance of a class "announcement".

For example:

$announcement = new announcement;
//code to bind data
$announcement->store();

My store function runs a query to store the information to the database. Everything is working as intended and storing to my database. However when I say:

if($announcement->store())
{
    echo 'success';
}
else{
    echo 'failure';
}

I get the 'failure' message. Why is my method returning false when it is actually working? Am I missing something with conditional statements and methods?

UPDATE My store function was not returning anything. So even though it worked it was returning a null value. I return true on query success and now it is working as intended. Thank you.

Answer 1

The store function should return true then your statement will print success message

class announcement {
    public function store() {
        // after execution code the return value should be like this
        return true;
    }
}