changing a value

[slimjim]

Have a status a field and i use 1,2,3, or 4

but i do not want to show numbers on a page i want to show a word instead..

[yelvington]

That sentence doesn't make sense, but I think what you're asking is "if I have a variable that might contain values 1, 2, 3 or 4, how do I map the value to a corresponding string?"

$myvar = 3;

switch($myvar){
case 1:
$myword = "one";
break;

case 2:
$myword = "two";
break;

case 3:
$myword = "three";
break;

case 4:
$myword = "four";
break;

}

echo $myword;

Another way, much shorter:

$mywords = array('zero', 'one', 'two, 'three', 'four');
echo $mywords[$myvar];