Is it possible to have 2 conditions within 1 if statement?

I currently have the following line of code

elseif($_POST['aspam'] != 'fire'){
print "Is ice really hotter than fire?";
}

Is there any sort of OR funct开发者_高级运维ion within PHP? as if to say if...

$_POST['aspam'] != 'fire' OR !='Fire'

OR alternatively make my value not case sensitive? Hopefully this makes sense...

The || or or (lowercase) operator.

elseif($_POST['aspam'] != 'fire' || $_POST['aspam'] != 'Fire'){
    print "Is ice really hotter than fire?";
}

Sure.

$_POST['aspam'] != 'fire' or $_POST['aspam'] !='Fire'

Just remember that each condition is separate. Saying or != 'Fire' doesn't automatically interpret it as or $_POST['aspam'] != 'Fire'.

They're called logical operators.

To compare the lowercase:

strtolower($_POST['aspam'] != 'fire'

You can do two conditions like this:

if($_POST['aspam'] != 'fire' || $_POST['aspam'] != 'Fire')

If I were you in this case, I would do:

if(strtolower($_POST['aspam']) != 'fire')

A PHP OR is created with ||, AND created with &&, etc. So your code example would look like:

if ( ($_POST['aspam'] != 'fire') || ($_POST['aspam'] != 'Fire') )

However in your case it would be better to:

if (strtolower($_POST['aspam']) != 'fire')

There are different logical operators in PHP.

Use for "OR" two pipes: ||

$_POST['aspam'] != 'fire' || !='Fire'

Here's a link with all operators: http://www.w3schools.com/PHP/php_operators.asp

Yes.

if (first condition || second condition){
your code
}

The OR is represented by 2 pipes - ||

Something more: You can also have AND:

if(first condition && second condition){
Your code...
}

So and is represented by &&

This is the logical OR

$_POST['aspam'] != 'fire' || !='Fire'

and this is the case-insensitive (ToLower function)

strtolower($_POST['aspam']) != 'fire'

Use strtolower($_POST['aspam'] )!='fire'

If you want to make the checking of your variable case insensitive, you can use below code

if(strtolower($_POST['aspam'])!='fire')
   echo "this is matching";

OR alternatively make my value not case sensitive?

if (strtolower($_POST['aspam']) != 'fire'){

}

Yes, this is possible. Try this:

elseif($_POST['aspam'] != 'fire' || $_POST['aspam'] != 'Fire')

You could use case insensitive string comparison:

if (strcasecmp($_POST['aspam'], 'fire') !== 0) {
    print "Is ice really hotter than fire?"; 
}

Or a list:

if (!in_array($_POST['aspam'], array('Fire','fire')) {
    ...

The shortest option here would probably be stristr:

if (stristr($_POST["aspam"], "FIRE")) {

It does a case-insensitive search. To make it a fixed-length match you might however need strcasecmp or strncasecmp in your case. (However I find that less readable, and doesn't look necessary in your case.)