RE: [PHP] IF or SWITCH

> -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: [PHP] IF or SWITCH > From: "John Wells" <wellsdjohn@gmail.com> > Date: Thu, April 06, 2006 6:08 am > To: php-general@lists.php.net > > > ...Either way, > > internally, switch behaves like if/elseif/else and generally only > > provides an advantage with respect to code organization or if you want a > > particular condition to drop through to other case blocks. > > > > Considering this is regarding an if/else with ***57*** conditional > checks, wouldn't we be wise in suggesting switch/case if one of its > benefits is code organization and readability? > > Imagine having to come back to this code block in a months time to trace a bug. > > *shudder* > > I would look very long and hard at how the solution may be simplified, > although it's hard to offer ideas without understanding the business > logic. I'm just hoping for your sake that there is a way. > > Good luck! > > John W > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php Thanks for all the info. I think I am going to take a lot of this information in mind to make it more readable... possibly even use a switch statement, because I know that this logic is going to change, and I WILL have to come back to this. Such a pain to completely cover every possibility under the sun for so many permutations... Ray