Chapter 2 Pursue - bullet 3 rewrite gender conditional

[MelissaMMDP]

I've been struggling with the following Pursue challenge. I found an eloquent solution in the forum for version 4 but it included a function which will not be discussed until chapter 3.  I just can't find a way to echo a greeting based on gender selection without a nested conditional. I would appreciate help on this.

Pursue:

Rewrite the gender conditional in handle_form.php (Script 2.4) as one conditional instead of two nested ones. Hint: You’ll need to use the AND operator. 

Here is the nested conditional:

   // Validate the gender:
   if (isset($_POST['gender'])) {

      $gender = $_POST['gender'];

      if ($gender == 'M') {
         $greeting = '<p><strong>Good day,
         Sir!</strong></p>';
      } elseif ($gender == 'F') {
         $greeting = '<p><strong>Good day,
         Madam!</strong></p>';
      } else { // Unacceptable value.
         $gender = NULL;
         echo '<p class="error">Gender
         should be either "M" or "F"!
         </p>';
      }

   } else { // $_POST['gender'] is not set.
      $gender = NULL;
      echo '<p class="error">You forgot to
      select your gender!</p>';
   }

Edited December 12, 2018 by MelissaMMDP

[MelissaMMDP]

Answered my own question:

   // Validate the gender:
   $gender = $_REQUEST['gender'] ?? NULL;

   if ($gender == 'M') {
         $greeting = '<p><strong>Good day, Sir!</strong></p>';
      } elseif ($gender == 'F') {
        $greeting = '<p><strong>Good day, Madam!</strong></p>';
      } else { // $_POST['gender'] is not set.
        echo '<p class="error">You forgot to select your gender!</p>';
      }

[MelissaMMDP]

18 hours ago, MelissaMMDP said:

 $gender = $_REQUEST['gender'] ?? NULL;

Correction - should be:

 $gender = $_POST['gender'] ?? NULL;

[Larry]

That's a fine solution! In the other thread I posted what I originally had in mind, though. With programming, there are many ways!