note 104490 modified in control-structures.switch by danbrown

I often find myself wanting an inline-switch statement (like the ?: for inline if) or "choose" function, to pick a single value out of a list based on a variable index... just a convenience function really, but I like compact code... <?php function iswitch( $index, $OPTIONS ) { return @$OPTIONS[$index-1]; } ?> usage: <?php echo iswitch( $roll, array( 'rock', 'paper', 'scissors' ) ); ?> I know there is a function for returning a random element from an array, and on a pre-defined array you can pull the item at a given index. But there is no method for quickly grabbing item x out of a list inline. (unless there are only 2 options, then the ?: operator works fine) --was-- I often find myself wanting an inline-switch statement (like the ?: for inline if) or "choose" function, to pick a single value out of a list based on a variable index... just a convenience function really, but I like compact code... function iswitch( $index, $OPTIONS ) { return @$OPTIONS[$index-1]; } usage: echo iswitch( $roll, array( 'rock', 'paper', 'scissors' ) ); I know there is a function for returning a random element from an array, and on a pre-defined array you can pull the item at a given index. But there is no method for quickly grabbing item x out of a list inline. (unless there are only 2 options, then the ?: operator works fine) http://php.net/manual/en/control-structures.switch.php