Checking for string

On page1.htm a form is submitted and one of the fields is "country". This variable gets transferred to page2.php.

Let us assume that the countries are US, UK, Canada and France.

Category 1 = UK or France

Category 2 = US or Canada

I want to check which category the entered country is within.

How can I do this?

How would I stored the country list?

I don't want to use a huge list of if statements!

Thanks,

Jon

<?
switch ($country) {
case 'uk':
$catagory = 1;
break;

case 'france':
$catgory = 1;
break;

case 'us':
$catagory = 2;
break;

case 'canada':
$catagory = 2;
break;

}

// ...or.... //

if (($country == 'uk') || ($country == 'france')) {
$catagory = 1;
}

elseif (($country == 'us')||{$country == 'canada')) {
$catagory = 2;
}

// ... or... //

$catagories = array(1 =>array('uk','france'),2=>array('us','canada'));

foreach ($catagories as $key) {
if (in_array($country,$catagories[$key])) { $catagory = $key; }
}

That last option is just what I am looking for - thanks.

Since I have so many countries it looks like the best option.

Thanks,

Jon

Not quite there yet... It shows a blank page when I have the following code:

<?php

//Check for countries in European union

$categories = array(1 =>array('uk','france'),2=>array('us','canada'));

for each ($categories as $key) {
if (in_array($country,$categories[$key])) {$category = $key; }
}

if $key==1 {
echo ("You are in the European Union, unfortunately!");
} else {
echo ("You are a Yankie!");
}

Any ideas?

Jon

Hmmm...
I haven't tested it, but the lifetime of var $key expires after the foreach loop quits.

use var $category to test instead.