> Personally, as I said before, I use if/else for two conditions and
switch for three or more. Your mileage may vary, but it's truly a
> matter of choice and is not one of asinine methodology.
> tedd
I think that's a fairly good methodology to follow. I usually do that...
except when I run into a huge list of multiple conditions for each
possibility (TRUE && FALSE OR FALSE && TRUE) etc. To me IF/ELSEIF is easier
to ready in that case,
The true && false scenarios require me to work up a truth table, for
I have great difficulty figuring that out in my head.
and SWITCH is a LOT easier to read if you have one
variable and have a CASE for each possibility of that variable.
I believe (until someone informs me otherwise) that your statement
above is a common misconception of the switch conditional -- you
don't need a single variable to evaluate. Case in point, try this
(taken from your own code).
$who_cares = 1;
switch ($who_cares)
{
case $numFFELP > 1 && count($FFELP_Lenders) > 1 && $numFFELP == $numTotal:
$retVal = array(TRUE, 'A');
break;
case $numFFELP > 0 && $enumFFELP > 0 && count($FFELP_Lenders) > 1 &&
$enumFFELP + $numFFELP == $numTotal:
$retVal = array(TRUE, 'A');
break;
}
Note, it's not actually required to have a variable to be evaluated
for each case statement. Each case statement stands on it's own
independent from the evaluation.
This has always worked for me in other languages and I am assuming
that it works the same in php.
Does anyone disagree or will correct me?
HTH's.
tedd
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