if...elseif...else
` statement is a conditional statement in PHP that allows you to execute different blocks of code based on multiple conditions. Here's the basic syntax of an `if...elseif...else
` statement :if (condition1) {
// Code to execute if condition1 is true
} elseif (condition2) {
// Code to execute if condition2 is true
} else {
// Code to execute if all conditions are false
}​
condition1
`, `condition2
`, etc. are the expressions that you want to evaluate. The `if
` statement checks if `condition1
` is true. If it is true, then the code inside the first set of curly braces `{}
` is executed, and the rest of the statement is skipped. If `condition1
` is false, then the `elseif
` statement checks if `condition2
` is true. If it is true, then the code inside the second set of curly braces `{}
` is executed, and the rest of the statement is skipped. condition1
` and `condition2
` are false, then the code inside the third set of curly braces `{}
` is executed.if...elseif...else
` statement to test if a number is positive, negative, or zero :<?php
// This is a PHP program that uses an if...elseif...else statement to test if a number is positive, negative, or zero
$num = 0; // A zero value
if ($num > 0) {
echo "The number is positive."; // Code to execute if the number is positive
} elseif ($num < 0) {
echo "The number is negative."; // Code to execute if the number is negative
} else {
echo "The number is zero."; // Code to execute if the number is zero
}
?>
The number is zero.
$num
` is assigned the value `0
`, which is neither positive nor negative. The `if...elseif...else
` statement then checks if `$num
` is greater than `0
`. $num
` is not greater than `0
`, the `elseif
` statement checks if `$num
` is less than `0
`. Since `$num
` is not less than `0
` either, the code inside the third set of curly braces `{}
` is executed, which prints the message "The number is zero." to the screen.$num
` had been assigned a positive or negative value, the code inside the corresponding set of curly braces `{}
` would have been executed instead.if...elseif...else
` statements can be used to test multiple conditions and execute different code based on the result of each test.