Do case statements have to be used for links in PHP?

Question

I've been given a school project which involves creating an online invoicing system in PHP. My teacher seems to be convinced that the only way to have a menu (with fixed pages like "display", etc) is to use case statements. My first guess would have been to just use a function which echo's some hrefs.

He also keeps saying that PHP is event driven. Is this true? I was always thought the interpreter on the server went through the code and then sent the html to the browser.

Any ideas?

I suspect he means using `case` for handling the menu items when selected, not for rendering them to the browser. — Joachim Isaksson, Nov 18 '12 at 18:13

dynamic · Accepted Answer · 2012-11-18T18:19:46.197

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PHP isn't event driven at all. Altho it exists Photon that is a framework to achive that.
And there are multiple ways to have menu. If with case you mean switch ... case: the answer is no. It is not the only way.

The way I make menu is with an array

$menu = array(
   'url 1'=>'Element 1 ',
   'url 2'=>'Element 2 ',
   'url 3'=>'Element 3 ' 
);

With this array knowing which is the element selected is pretty simple with no need of a case statement

edited Nov 18 '12 at 18:19

answered Nov 18 '12 at 18:13

dynamic

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That's what I thought. I did mean case. What would you do for the menu structure? – Edward Nov 18 '12 at 18:17
@Edward: updated... Alto I didn't consider for hierarchical items. But it's not that hard to innest array from there – dynamic Nov 18 '12 at 18:19

Do case statements have to be used for links in PHP?

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