Converting an Int to a string?

[martinpompey]

Hi All,

 

I have a php form which is posting a country variable which is currently a number value, but before I post this to a flat text file I want to convert the number into a string (E.G. in the DB 1 = France 3=UK 6-Germany)... I was thinking something along the lines of:

 

$Country = $_REQUEST['Country'];

 

if ($Country =1)

{$CountryW = 'France';}

 

else if ($Country =3)

{$Country = 'UK';}

 

else if ($Country =9)

{$Country = 'Test';}

 

else {$Country = 'Germany';}

 

But this doesn't seem to be working and there would be around 180 Countries so I can see its not efficient. Any help would be much appreciated. If you need more code let me know.

 

Thanks so much for any help

Martin

[PFMaBiSmAd]

You would use a lookup array -

 

$lookup = array();
$lookup[1] = 'France';
$lookup[3] = 'UK';
$lookup[9] = 'Test';
// add other entries here ...

$Country = $_REQUEST['Country'];

if(isset($lookup[$Country])){
    $Country = $lookup[$Country];
} else {
    $Country = 'Germany';
}

 

Once you have an array like that you would also use it to build your form so that you have consistency and shorter code.

[martinpompey]

Thank you so much PFMaBiSmAd,

 

I am going to try and implement this straight away and see if I can get it working.

 

Thank you so much for your quick answer :-)

[martinpompey]

Thanks a lot, it worked first time (of course).

 

Thanks so much for your help. This also will help me understand arrays a bit more too!!!