Question

I am reading some data from the database which are numbers.

What I need to do is to assign a name to each number …

something like:

get the variable: ... thevar = '1';

If thevar = 1 then myname = 'name1';
else
If thevar = 2 then myname = 'name2';

How can I do this with javascript?

Sorry, I don’t think I’ve explained it properly…what I need if the syntax on how I would do this the above with javascript.

Hope it now makes more sense.

Answer 1

How about myname = 'name' + myvariable;

Assuming you want the syntax of w.e you have posted,

var thevar = '1'; //read from database
var myname = '';

if (thevar === '1') {
  myname = 'name1';
} else if (thevar === '2') {
  myname = 'name2';
}