Question

I’m looking to make a statement in PHP like this:

if(preg_match("/apples/", $ref1, $matches)) OR if(preg_match("/oranges/", $ref1, $matches)) {
Then do something }

Each of those above by themselves work just fine, but I can’t figure out how to make it so that if either of them is true, then to perform the function I have beneath it.

Answer 1

Simple, use the logical OR operator:

if (expression || expression) { code }

For example, in your case:

if(
    preg_match("/qualifier 1/", $ref1, $matches) ||
    preg_match("/qualifier 2/", $ref1, $matches)
) {
    do_something();
}