Question

Is this possible?

$var_1 = 1;
$var_2 = 10;
$comparison = '>';

if($var_1 $comparison $var_2) {
    // do something...
}

The syntax right now is not valid but is there a way to do this?

Answer 1

Not natively (except of course with eval). You will need to evaluate the various expressions yourself. Build a wrapper function and use a switch statement. Or for non-expression comparisons a simple map:

$var_1 = 1;
$var_2 = 10;
$comparison = '>';

$map = array(
    ">" => $var_1 > $var_2,
    "<" => $var_1 < $var_2,
    "==" => $var_1 == $var_2,
    "!=" => $var_1 != $var_2,
);

if($map[$comparison]) {
    // do something...
}