simple if/else php quesiton

fifeclub posted this at 02:25 — 20th October 2005.

Joined: Feb 2001

This code works perfectly. The only part you need to worry about it the if/else formatting for two options.

<?php
if(preg_match(\"/domain1\.com/i\", $_SERVER[\"HTTP_HOST\"])) {
  include(\"/home/user1/public_html/header.php\");
} else {
  include(\"/home/user2/public_html/header.php\");
}
?>

But when I tried to make it an if/if/else with a third option if got all sortsa screwed up.

<?php
if(preg_match(\"/domain1\.com/i\", $_SERVER[\"HTTP_HOST\"])) {
  include(\"/home/user1/public_html/header.php\");
} else {
if(preg_match(\"/domain2\.com/i\", $_SERVER[\"HTTP_HOST\"])) {
  include(\"/home/user2/public_html/header.php\");
} else {
  include(\"/home/user3/public_html/header.php\");
}
?>

So what did I do wrong here with the ifs and elses and bracket thingys? Thanks.

demonhale posted this at 02:29 — 20th October 2005.

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Joined: May 2005

put the else tag inside the ifs???

kazimmerman posted this at 02:38 — 20th October 2005.

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Joined: Jul 2005

I think this is what you want. Combine the middle else/if to become an elseif statement.

<? 
if(preg_match("/domain1\.com/i", $_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"])) { 
  include("/home/user1/public_html/header.php"); 
} 
  else if(preg_match("/domain2\.com/i", $_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"])) { 
  include("/home/user2/public_html/header.php"); 
} else { 
  include("/home/user3/public_html/header.php"); 
} 
?> 

(EDIT: Fixed spacing...)

Kurtis

fifeclub posted this at 02:55 — 20th October 2005.

He has: 688 posts

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Yes, that did it. Thanks!!!
(note: I don't know if it was necessary but I put a space between "else if")

Mark Hensler posted this at 15:09 — 28th October 2005.

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fifeclub wrote: (note: I don't know if it was necessary but I put a space between "else if")

....

Quote: quoted from http://us2.php.net/manual/en/control-structures.elseif.php

In PHP, you can also write 'else if' (in two words) and the behavior would be identical to the one of 'elseif' (in a single word). The syntactic meaning is slightly different (if you're familiar with C, this is the same behavior) but the bottom line is that both would result in exactly the same behavior.

Mark Hensler
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kazimmerman posted this at 03:10 — 20th October 2005.

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yeah, that was a screw up.

timjpriebe posted this at 12:53 — 20th October 2005.

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I know you've already changed it, but you were missing a bracket. If you'd tacked on one more closing bracket at the end to finish off the first else, that would have fixed it as well.

You had this:

if (...)
{...}
else
{
if (...)
{...}
else
{...}

'
...which should have been this...

[code]
if (...)
{...}
else
{
if (...)
{...}
else
{...}
}

Tim
http://www.tandswebdesign.com

Greg K posted this at 13:51 — 20th October 2005.

He has: 2,145 posts

Joined: Nov 2003

This is where good indenting would work.

<?php
 if(preg_match(\"/domain1\.com/i\", $_SERVER[\"HTTP_HOST\"])) {
   include(\"/home/user1/public_html/header.php\");
 } else {
   if(preg_match(\"/domain2\.com/i\", $_SERVER[\"HTTP_HOST\"])) {
     include(\"/home/user2/public_html/header.php\");
   } else {
     include(\"/home/user3/public_html/header.php\");
   }
 
?>

This way you can easily see something is missing.

I love a good editor that will do (, [, else { if(preg_match(\"/domain2\.com/i\", $_SERVER[\"HTTP_HOST\"])) { include(\"/home/user2/public_html/header.php\"); } else { include(\"/home/user3/public_html/header.php\"); } } [/codefilter_php]or if they all are "one liners" as I call them:

<?php
 if(preg_match(\"/domain1\.com/i\", $_SERVER[\"HTTP_HOST\"])) 
   include(\"/home/user1/public_html/header.php\");
 else
   if(preg_match(\"/domain2\.com/i\", $_SERVER[\"HTTP_HOST\"])) 
     include(\"/home/user2/public_html/header.php\");
   else
     include(\"/home/user3/public_html/header.php\");
 
 
?>

This way requires good formatting and like I said, I usually only use it for all one liners, even if one section is more than one line, then I will bracket them all for clarity.

-Greg