the ryan king

I just found this article called Five Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do with PHP. An interesting read for any PHP hackers out there.

The only one I didn’t know about was #1- apparently this is legal:

< ?php
switch (TRUE) {
        case ($age < 16):
                echo 'You cannot drive.';
                break;
        case ($age < 18):
                echo 'You cannot vote.';
                break;
        case ($age < 21):
                echo 'You cannot drink.';
                break;
        case ($age > 65):
                echo 'You should be retired.';
                break;
        default:
                echo 'Work, work, work...';
                break;
?}
?>

Saves a bit of space/typing versus if/elseif/else, but other than that I’m not sure how useful it is.