Question

Instead of this:

if($today >= $dateOne && $dateOne != '0000-00-00')
    {
    run some code
    }
elseif($today >= $dateTwo && $dateTwo != '0000-00-00')
    {
    run some code
    }
elseif($today >= $dateThree && $dateThree != '0000-00-00')
    {
    run some code
    }
elseif($today >= $dateFour && $dateFour != '0000-00-00')
    {
    run some code
    }
else
    {
    run this code
    }

…which goes up to $dateEleven, is there a better why to do this? I figure there has to be a better way than to have all of these elseif statements.

Answer 1

$dates = Array( 1 => $dateOne, 2 => $dateTwo, ... );
foreach($dates as $key => $date) {
  if($today > $date && $date != '0000-00-00') {
      $date_key = $key;
      break ; // exit loop
  }
}
switch($date_key) {
   case 1:
      // code 1
      break;
   case 2:
      // code 2
      break;
   case 3:
      // code 3
      break;
   case 4:
   case 5:
      // etc.
      break;
}