Question about Switch Statements

[Davidc316]

Is it possible to include conditional IF statements inside switch case declarations?

For example... Instead of doing...

switch($year){ 
          case '0': 
              $yearvar="years";
              break; 
          case '1': 
              $yearvar="year";
              break; 
          case '2':
              $yearvar="years";
              break; 
          case '3':
              $yearvar="years";
              break; 
          case '4':
              $yearvar="years";
              break; 
          case '5:
              $yearvar="years";
              break; 
          case '6':
              $yearvar="years";
              break; 
          case '7':
              $yearvar="years";
              break; 
          case '8':
              $yearvar="years";
              break; 
          case '9':
              $yearvar="years";
              break; 
          default: 
              $yearvar="Please Select Number of Years...";
}

...would it be possible to be a little more economical and say something like...

switch($year){ 
          case '0':
              $yearvar="years";
          case '1':
              $yearvar="year";
          case ($year>1): 
              $yearvar="years";
              break; 
          default: 
              $yearvar="Please Select Number of Years...";
}

The manual doesn't appear to address this.

[laserlight]

If you really want to use a switch, you can do:

switch ($year) {
case 1:
	$yearvar = "year";
	break;
case 0:
case 2:
case 3:
case 4:
case 5:
case 6:
case 7:
case 8:
case 9:
	$yearvar = "years";
	break;
default:
	$yearvar = "Please Select Number of Years...";
}

But in this case if-elseif-else with ranges may be better:

if ($year > 1 && $year < 10 || $year == 0) {
	$yearvar = "years";
} elseif ($year == 1) {
	$yearvar = "year";
} else {
	$yearvar = "Please Select Number of Years...";
}

[Davidc316]

Many thanks Laser!