Nesting if else statements in PHP to validate a URL
- by John
I'm currently writing up a function in order to validate a URL by exploding it into different parts and matching those parts with strings I've defined. This is the function I'm using so far:
function validTnet($tnet_url) {
$tnet_2 = "defined2";
$tnet_3 = "defined3";
$tnet_5 = "defined5";
$tnet_7 = "";
if($exp_url[2] == $tnet_2) {
#show true, proceed to next validation
if($exp_url[3] == $tnet_3) {
#true, and next
if($exp_url[5] == $tnet_5) {
#true, and last
if($exp_url[7] == $tnet_7) {
#true, valid
}
}
}
} else {
echo "failed on tnet_2";
}
}
For some reason I'm unable to think of the way to code (or search for the proper term) of how to break out of the if statements that are nested.
What I would like to do check each part of the URL, starting with $tnet_2, and if it fails one of the checks ($tnet_2, $tnet_3, $tnet_5 or $tnet_7), output that it fails, and break out of the if statement. Is there an easy way to accomplish this using some of the code I have already?
