Should this work...?

[Anon]

I have this code and it doesn't work. What is the correct syntax for this?

if($searchBox == "Uk" OR "Great Britain" OR "Britain" OR "British" OR "England" OR "English") {
$searchBox = "United Kingdom";
} else if($searchBox == "Belgian" OR "Belguim") {
$searchBox = "Belgium";
} else if($searchBox == "Usa" OR "Us" OR "America") {
$searchBox = "United States";
}

Cheers...

Tony.

[Anon]

I've been studying PHP for two hours or so and with my extensive knowledge I can tell you what any beginner's manual os source code example would have. =).

Replace any "OR" with "||" and any "else if" with "elseif".

There might be more to it as I'm really just a beginner.

[Anon]

Your nearly right, but you need to let if see the variable for each check

Like so

if($searchBox == "Uk" OR $searchBox == "Great Britain")

PHP can then see the variable $searchBox at each stage in the condition

Mark
www.hdwt.com

[Anon]

n/t honest...

🙂

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I think you should study PHP a bit longer before posting 'smartass' remarks :-)

In PHP it is completely correct to use OR instead of ||, and PHP understands 'else if' just as well as 'elseif'.

The only mistake there is is that he used the OR to create a range of possible values to match against, and it does not work that way (as Mark explianed).