note 91213 deleted from control-structures.switch by danbrown

Note Submitter: wbeaumo1 at gmail dot com ---- RE: sedativchunk Your switch is taking an integer as input and evaluating boolean cases! It only works by accident. Since you've defined your input ($randomizer) as always being a positive nonzero integer, and since a nonzero integer always evaluates to "true" when compared with a boolean, it follows that only cases that evaluate to "true" will be executed. But what if you changed the rules so that your $randomizer could be zero? Then if it were zero, only cases that evaluated to "false" would be executed! To avoid that possibility, just change the switch input to "true": <?php $randomizer = rand(1,50); switch(true) { case ($randomizer <= 20): $font_size = "11"; break; case ($randomizer <= 30): $font_size = "16"; break; case ($randomizer <= 40): $font_size = "18"; break; case ($randomizer <= 50): $font_size = "20"; break; } ?>