Ifs, ands, or buts

Another one that should be easy that I am just not finding anywhere in the manual. How do I put an 'and' or an 'or' in an if statement? I know I could achieve the same results with multiple if statements, but that seems so inefficient. Lets say I wanted to check a bunch of fields to make sure they weren't empty. I can check one field by saying: if ($field1) { echo "Field 1 is not empty"; } Can't I just say: if ($field1 and $field2 and $field3 and $field4) { echo "All four fields are field in"; } Or if ($field1 or $field2 or $field3 or $field4) { echo "At least one of the four fields is filled in"; } ? Maybe its not the word "and" and "or" but maybe its && or || respectively? That's what I've seen in other languages that let you do this. I'm sure there must be a way to do this with PHP, too. Thanks for your help. Diana

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