IF or SWITCH
| From: | Ray Hauge | Date: | Thu, 06 Apr 2006 02:48:22 +0000 |
| Subject: | IF or SWITCH | ||
| Groups: | php.general | ||
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Hello World! wait, not coding... (sorry, long night)
Okay, I finally finished hashing out all the logic for a very complex set of
rules to determine what "type" an application should be set to. I won't bore
you with the details of it, but the question is...
I have 57 if/elseif/else statements because of all the different criteria. Is
it considered better programming practice to use if/elseif/else statements
over a switch(true) case (true && false || true || false) syntax?
Basically, I'm not too happy with the readability of the code, but I'm afraid
that at this point there's not much I can do...
code snippet:
if($numFFELP > 1 && count($FFELP_Lenders) > 1 && $numFFELP == $numTotal){
$retVal = array(TRUE, 'A');
}elseif($numFFELP > 0 && $enumFFELP > 0 && count($FFELP_Lenders) > 1
&&
$enumFFELP + $numFFELP == $numTotal){
$retVal = array(TRUE, 'A');
}elseif($numFFELP > 0 && $numCONS > 0 && count($FFELP_Lenders) > 1
&&
$numFFELP + $numCONS == $numTotal){
etc.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
--
Ray Hauge
Programmer/Systems Administrator
American Student Loan Services
www.americanstudentloan.com
1.800.575.1099