Advanced IF checking

[wad]

I want to simplify an IF statement that I have.

Basically, it's checking if a user is logged in, and if not, what action they are performing. If they are trying to access a portion of the site they can't because they aren't logged in, it returns an error. Needless to say, this statement is VERY long.

I've been experimenting with 2 ideas, but no success.

First was to access an array, do the checking, and return the value FALSE or TRUE. It went something like:

if (doCheck() == 'TRUE')
{
     // echo success statement
}
elseif (doCheck() == 'FALSE')
{
    // echo failure statement
}
else
{
    // echo TOTAL failure statement
}

And I get the TOTAL failure error message.

This is my function:

function doCheck()
{
	if (isset($INFO['userCookie']))
	{
		return TRUE;
	}
	elseif (!isset($INFO['userCookie']))
	{
		return FALSE;
	}
}

Then I wanted to do the IF checking using an array of known values, and if it matched any of those, it would do something.

I wasn't sure on the implementation of this, so I realized I'm over my head. It might work using a for loop, if I knew how many items were in the array. But then that might take too much overhead. I couldn't find anything online that was able to do what I wanted.

I honestly think the function method would be best if I could get it working.

Does anybody have any insight on this particular problem?

Thanks!

[tekky]

your array isnt accessible inside the function because it has to be a global variable to be used inside the function or change the function to accept an array as an option, and use that to test your if statements... read up on variable scopes at www.php.net