This is my source for the variable.

<?php
if ($admin->get_permissions()=3)
echo 'Welcome to the Admin Panel';
else
echo 'Sorry, You do not have access to this page';
?>

And the code that I'm actually trying to call with the if statement is:

public function get_permissions() {
        $username = $_SESSION['admin_login'];
        global $db;
        $info = $db->get_row("SELECT `permissions` FROM `user` WHERE `username` = '" . $db->escape($username) . "'");
        if(is_object($info))
            return $info->permissions;
        else
            return '';
    }

This should be a simple way to call my pages that the user is authorized for by using an else if statement. Or So I thought