Question

In writing select statements in mySQL, if I want to pull records where a column value equals one of a number of values, I can say something like this:

SELECT * FROM myTable WHERE myColumn IN(1,5,7)

Is the only way to accomplish something similar in PHP with OR?

if($category == 1 || $category == 5 || $category == 7) {
   // do something
}

Answer 1

See the in_array() function.

E.g.:

$list = array(1, 5, 7);
if (in_array($category, $list)) {
  // do something
}

Or, more compactly:

if (in_array($category, array(1, 5, 7))) {
  // do something
}