PHP action inside PHP already running - php

Question

Good Day
I am not sure if this is possible but any advice would be greatly be appreciated.
I have a code in PHP as below and would like to add additional PHP code Not sure how to explain it but maybe if I show code it would make some sence.
<?php
//Clickatell login
$user = "##";
$password = "##";
$api_id = "##";
$baseurl ="http://api.clickatell.com";
$text = urlencode("Recovery Assist Panic Activated (BETA TEST VERSION");
$to = "'0827910119'";
?>
The above is the current code I have with some additional extra's not required here. I want to add the following to this code as part of Sitelok page manager
<?php
//Clickatell login
$user = "##";
$password = "##";
$api_id = "##";
$baseurl ="http://api.clickatell.com";
$text = urlencode("Recovery Assist Panic Activated (BETA TEST VERSION");
<?php if (sl_ismemberof("RecAssist")){ ?>
$to = "'0827911119'";
<?php } ?>
<?php if (sl_ismemberof("Gold")){ ?>
$to = "'0827952558'";
<?php } ?>
?>
The "is a member of" is part of the sitelok code to exclude on HTML where a person does not have access to. I am not sure if I can run another inside the one running already. I know this can be done with IF and ELS most prob but the coding for the amount of groups will just be too much so hoped that somehow I can use the Sitelok section

Answer 1

Why not just use an if statement?
e.g.
<?php
//Clickatell login
$user = "##";
$password = "##";
$api_id = "##";
$baseurl = "http://api.clickatell.com";
$text = urlencode("Recovery Assist Panic Activated (BETA TEST VERSION");
if (sl_ismemberof("RecAssist")){
$to = "'0827911119'";
} elseif (sl_ismemberof("Gold")) {
$to = "'0827952558'";
}
?>

Answer 2

The best an most maintainable way to achieve this would be to define all of your groups or w/e in an associative array and loop through it because it will be the most maintainable.
<?php
//Clickatell login
$user = "##";
$password = "##";
$api_id = "##";
$baseurl = "http://api.clickatell.com";
$text = urlencode("Recovery Assist Panic Activated (BETA TEST VERSION");
$groups = array(
"RecAssist" => "0827911119",
"Gold" => "0827952558",
);
$to = "";
foreach($groups as $k=>$v)
{
if(sl_ismemberof($k)) // $k is the RecAssist or Gold or w/e
{
$to = "'$v'"; // $v is those digits
// if $groups were to have 100 items or even 1,000 then there is no need to run sl_ismemberof() on the remaining items once we found what we are looking for. It would be a waste of time.
break; // break out of our loop
}
}
echo $to;
?>