Diana,
Diana Cassady said:
> Another one that should be easy that I am just not finding anywhere in
> the manual.
>
> How do I put an 'and' or an 'or' in an if statement?
>
> I know I could achieve the same results with multiple if statements,
> but that seems so inefficient.
>
> Lets say I wanted to check a bunch of fields to make sure they weren't
> empty. I can check one field by saying:
>
> if ($field1) {
> echo "Field 1 is not empty";
> }
>
> Can't I just say:
>
> if ($field1 and $field2 and $field3 and $field4) {
> echo "All four fields are field in";
> }
>
> Or
>
> if ($field1 or $field2 or $field3 or $field4) {
> echo "At least one of the four fields is filled in";
> }
>
> ?
>
> Maybe its not the word "and" and "or" but maybe its && or ||
You solved it yourself. && means 'AND' , || means 'OR'
> respectively? That's what I've seen in other languages that let you do
> this. I'm sure there must be a way to do this with PHP, too.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Diana
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