PHP If Statement with Multiple Conditions

Question

I have a variable$var.

I want echo "true" if $var is equal to any of the following values abc, def, hij, klm, or nop. Is there a way to do this with a single statement like &&??

Answer 1

An elegant way is building an array on the fly and using in_array():

if (in_array($var, array("abc", "def", "ghi")))

The switch statement is also an alternative:

switch ($var) {
case "abc":
case "def":
case "hij":
    echo "yes";
    break;
default:
    echo "no";
}