Question

I need to show current record status in human readable format.
In my database I have an int for this field, so record may have status 1, 2, 3, 4 e.t.c

I wrote some code to show current status to user:

<?php 
// code to retrieve current status from DB
// ...


if ($status == '1') {
    echo "Current status: Active";
}
if ($status == '2') {
    echo "Current status: Pending";
}
    if ($status == '3') {
    echo "Current status: Inactive";
}

// etc..

?>

This code looks very ugly, but I can’t figure out how to refactor it to make it more effective and without infinite series of conditions.

Answer 1

Make an array:

$statvalue=array(1=>'Active',2=>'Pending',3=>'Inactive');
echo("Current status: {$statvalue[$status]}");