Can I use an if statement inside of a switch in php? - php

Question

Heres what I want to do:
I have a variable named $user, where the information is being POSTED from a form. If the form data is empty I want to do one thing, if the form data is just a comma or symbol I want to do another thing, and if the form data is correct I want to do a third thing. This is how I have it set up, will this work? If not, what can I do to make it work?
switch($user){
case 1:
if(empty($user)){
echo "<h2>"."<strong>"."You entered NOTHING, PLEASE Re-Enter"."</strong>"."</h2>";
}
case 2:
if($user == ",") {
echo "<h2>"."<strong>"."You did not enter any valid names/abbreviations to search, PLEASE Re-Enter"."</strong>"."</h2>";
}
default:
print "==========================================="."<br />";
tester($company, $user);
print "==========================================="."<br />";
print "========The following were NOT found====="."<br />";
notFound($company, $user);
print "==========================================="."<br />";
}
Right now it is automatically going to default. It runs, but I want integrate the two qualifiers, how would I go about doing that?

Answer 1

You need to put break at the end of each case in a switch statement or it falls through to the next case. I also think you may be confused about the way switch works. If you're switching on $user, case matches against the value of $user--so you don't even need if-statements.
switch($user){
case "":
echo "<h2>"."<strong>"."You entered NOTHING, PLEASE Re-Enter"."</strong>"."</h2>";
break;
case ",":
echo "<h2>"."<strong>"."You did not enter any valid names/abbreviations to search, PLEASE Re-Enter"."</strong>"."</h2>";
break;
default:
print "==========================================="."<br />";
tester($company, $user);
print "==========================================="."<br />";
print "========The following were NOT found====="."<br />";
notFound($company, $user);
print "==========================================="."<br />";
}