Ashley Sheridan schreef:
> On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 15:15 -0500, Frank Stanovcak wrote:
>> I've googled, and found some confusing answers.
>> I've tried searching the history of the news group, and only found info on
>> switch or elseif seperately. :(
>>
>> Strictly from a performance stand point, not preference or anything else, is
>> there a benefit of one over the other?
>>
>>
>> for($i=0;$i<3;$i++){
>> switch($i){
>> case 0:
>> header pg1 code
>> break;
>> case 1:
>> header pg2 code
>> break;
>> case 3:
>> header pg3 code
>> break;
>> };
>> };
>>
>>
>> or would that be better served using an if...elseif structure?
>>
>> Frank
>>
>>
>>
> And a switch is a lot neater for dealing with these sorts of things. I
> tend never to use if...elseif's at all, and use switches. Like Rob said,
> you can fall into further cases below, and it's very simple to add more
> at a later date. There is one place where an if...elseif would work and
> a switch could not, and that is where you were performing lots of
> different logic tests on different variables.
switch (true) {
case ($x === $y):
// something
break;
case ($a != $b):
// something
break;
case (myFunc()):
// something
break;
case ($my->getChild()->hasEatenBeans()):
// something
break;
}
evil ... but it works.
PS - hi, people happy new year (or whatever) ... it's not that I'm dead ... I just can't be arsed atm.
> Aside from that, I think
> any speed benefit one would have over the other would be marginal.
>
>
> Ash
> www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
>
>
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