RE: [PHP] if/elseif being treated as if/if
| From: | Steve Staples | Date: | Fri, 24 Sep 2010 19:44:56 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] if/elseif being treated as if/if | ||
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this would be the same as:
(commented below)
On Fri, 2010-09-24 at 15:30 -0400, tedd wrote:
> At 2:23 PM -0400 9/24/10, Bob McConnell wrote:
> >
> >A switch works when a single test can dispatch all possible branches. If
> >you have a series of tests where each looks for a different subset of
> >conditions, you need an elseif.
> >
> >Bob McConnell
>
> Bob:
>
> Not so, O'wise one.
>
> This will work:
>
> switch(1)
> {
> case $a > $b:
if($a > $b)
> /* whatever
> break;
>
elseif ($c == 1)
> case $c == 1:
> /* whatever
> break;
>
elseif($d == 'this works')
> case $d == 'this works':
> /* whatever
> break;
> }
> Granted, it's not the normal way a switch works in some other
> languages, but it does work in PHP. :-)
>
All you have to remember, and same as with this switch, is that the
first match, will stop processing the rest of the stuff.
Steve.
> Cheers,
>
> tedd
>
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