Question

In PHP, While using a switch case loop, can i use the for loop for iterating the cases?
for example

switch .....

foreach($xyz as $abc)

{
 CASE:$abc
}

default;

UPDATE

I am fetching the value from DB, this value is name of table, by using “case” I want to execute a particular query according to the table name..

Is this possible?

Answer 1

You probably just want to put the switch statement into the foreach?

foreach ($tables as $table) {
    switch ($table) {
        case 'table_one' :
            // do something here
            break;
        case 'table_two' :
            // do something here
            break;
        case 'table_three' :
            // do something here
            break;
        default :
            // do some error handling here
            break;
    }
}

Alternatively, a switch isn’t that easy to read, consider going away from a switch and using an array-powered if, especially if you could dynamically create what you want to do each case:

$tables = array('table_one', 'table_two', 'table_three');
if (in_array($table, $tables)) {
    // do something here
} else {
    // do some error handling here
}

That’s a lot more readable, even if your array has a lot of elements.