Re: Multiple "if()" statements

At 04:38 PM 6/28/2006, Grae Wolfe - PHP wrote:

The first problem is men's names and unmarried women's names... they will have the same "hs_last_name" and "last_name" so I don't want the duplicate displaying on the page. The second problem is the entry of the word "none" by some of the visitors in place of a "hs_last_name"... obviously I don't want to display this either. if($row[1]="none") { print("<tr>"); print("<td>$row[0] $row[2]</td>"); print("</tr>"); } else if($row[1]=$row[2]) { print("<tr>"); print("<td>$row[0] $row[2]</td>"); print("</tr>"); } else

     print("<tr>");

print("<td>$row[0] ($row[1]) $row[2]</td>");

      print("</tr>");

Grae, For ease of maintenance, and to reduce repetition in the code, I would separate the logic of your string concatenation from the HTML output, something like this: $sName = $row[0];

        if ($row[1] != "none" && $row[1] != $row[2]) $sName .= $row[1];

$sName .= $row[2]; $sHTML = <<< hdHTML <tr>

        <td>$sName</td>

</tr> hdHTML; print($sHTML); Regards, Paul