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[Anon]

I'm making a search script (no db). After it is done searching through all of the elseif's is there any way to say:

"if $ext did not match any of the [elseifs] above, then echo no results"

?

[Anon]

use the else part of the if statement:

if (condition) {
} elseif (condition2) {
} elseif (condition3) {
} else {
echo "no results";
}

Diego

[Anon]

Basicly,

if $ext is equal to one of the elseifs below, then run theorugh the elseifs, else echo no resluts

[Anon]

That's what he said. But if you're just comparing $ext against a known list of alternatives, then a switch() might be cleaner.

[jakyl]

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well, a cool way i found to do it is to create an array of things you're checking for. a switch is much nicer for only a few things, but this is cleaner for a lot. An example:

$input = "your input";
$desired_results = array('a','b','c');
$i = 0;
while(!$found && $i<count($desired_results)) {
if($input == $desired_results[$i]) {
echo "STUFF";
$found = true;
} else {
$i++;
}
}

if(!$found)
echo "Your query was not found";

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