Posted by Michael Fesser on 06/25/07 00:30

..oO(Geoff Berrow)

>Message-ID: <467ecee0$0$10863$426a74cc@news.free.fr> from Séverin
>Richard contained the following:
>
>>Thank you for your answer
>>
>>I have many different extention to deal with and i will use switch
>>rather than ternary operator.
>
>I still find little use for switch and prefer to use an array instead.

In a situation like this a switch is the perfect solution:

switch ($foo) {
case 1: doThis(); break;
case 2: doThat(); break;
case 3: doSomething(); break;
case 4: doSomethingElse(); break;
default: doWhatever();
}

The alternative would be a cascade of 4 if-else statements ... Ugly.

Micha

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