Question

I am new to PHP and find it very hard to explain.

I have a PHP navigation script with 5 categories and two variables relevant to my question:

$catname = 'used-cars'; // the same value for all categories

$currentpage; // pages 1 to 5 

index.php of my site has $currentpage == '1'

The issue is that I need a logic that will say:

If $catname IS NOT ‘used-cars’, do something, BUT, IF $currentpage is equal to 1, even if $catname is ‘used-cats’ do it anyway

I am thinking of something like this:

if($catname != 'used-cars' && !($currentpage > '1')):

endif;

Hope you can help!

Answer 1

This is merely a single or condition. On the right side, $currentpage === 1 will evaluate to TRUE without regard to the value of $catname. If either part of the condition is TRUE, you’ll enter the if () block to execute your code there.

if ($catname !== "used-cars" || $currentpage === 1) {
  // do your thing

}