RE: [PHP] Any good way ?

maybe I'm over simplifying... my apologies if I am but it looks like you're testing each variable as a boolean value i.e. if(TRUE) so why not use a switch/case statement... easier to write and saved on extraneous curly syntax... look here http://www.php.net/manual/en/control-structures.switch.php -----Original Message----- From: TV Karthick Kumar [mailto:tvktech@yahoo.co.uk] Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 10:40 AM To: php-db@lists.php.net; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Any good way ? Hi all I have written the following code, but I dont' think it's a good way to write like this. Is there some other way to do good programming for this ?! **************************************************************************** ****************** if ($f) { $SQL .= " (FIRST_NAME like '%$f%') AND "; } if ($l) { $SQL .= " (LAST_NAME like '%$l%') AND "; } if ($em) { $SQL .= " (HOME_EMAIL1 like '%$em%') OR (HOME_EMAIL2 like '%$em%') OR (WORK_EMAIL1 like '%$em%') OR (WORK_EMAIL2 like '%$em%') "; } **************************************************************************** ****************** Any help is appreciated very much. Thanks in adv. ~ Karthick -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net