Question

What’s the best way to write this in PHP, so I know which condition fails and is easy to maintain? Without resorting to multiple if else statements…

if ((!$titleBlockPresent || !$leadBlock || ($allDoubleBlockCount !=2 || $allDoubleBlockCount!=1) ||$countFirstSmallShowBlocks !=2 ||$countSecondSmallShowBlocks !=2 ) && !$contentNotAvailableMessage)
{
    $this->fail("Block missing in the horizontal list of blocks on the non live carousel");
}

Answer 1

try this

$shouldFail = FALSE;
switch(TRUE){
 case !titleBlockPresent:
    echo "No title block present<br/>";
    $shouldFail = TRUE;
 case !$leadBlock:
    echo "No lead block<br/>";

  // the rest of the code
}