MelissaMMDP 0 Posted December 12, 2018 Report Share Posted December 12, 2018 (edited) 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 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MelissaMMDP 0 Posted December 13, 2018 Author Report Share Posted December 13, 2018 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>'; } Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MelissaMMDP 0 Posted December 13, 2018 Author Report Share Posted December 13, 2018 18 hours ago, MelissaMMDP said: $gender = $_REQUEST['gender'] ?? NULL; Correction - should be: $gender = $_POST['gender'] ?? NULL; Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Larry 429 Posted December 16, 2018 Report Share Posted December 16, 2018 That's a fine solution! In the other thread I posted what I originally had in mind, though. With programming, there are many ways! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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