[Solved] How eliminate duplicate cases from a switch statement in PHP

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If you have switch cases that are the same, you can combine them by omitting the return and break lines of the earlier cases.

In the following, 3, 4, 5 and 6 all take the return value of case 7 (true):

switch($role) {
    case 3:
    case 4:
    case 5:
    case 6:
    case 7:
        return true;
        break;
    default:
        return false;
        break;
}

Although having said that, considering everything seems to return the same way apart from your default, you might be better off making use of a simple if condition. You can even specify that the roles should be between 3 and 7:

if ($role >= 3 && $role <= 7) {
    return true;
}
else {
    return false;
}

Hope this helps! 🙂

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