case issue

[Jamie]

I am working in WordPress. I am getting some values from option tree. I put them in an array. If I do a foreach loop on the variable, I do get the content. I tried putting the data in a case structure and when I run the code, I get nothing. What am I doing wrong?

$facebook = ot_get_option('facebook');

$twitter = ot_get_option('twitter');
$flickr = ot_get_option('flickr');
$vimeo = ot_get_option('vimeo');
$delicious = ot_get_option('delicious');
$google = ot_get_option('google');
$email = ot_get_option('email');

$social = array($facebook, $twitter, $flickr, $vimeo, $delicious, $google, $email);

switch($social){
    case 'facebook':
        return 'this is facebook';
        break;
    case 'twitter':
        return 'this is twitter';
        break;
    case 'flickr':
        return 'this is flickr';
        break;
    case 'vimeo':
        return 'this is vimeo';
        break;
    case 'delicious':
        return 'this is delicious';
        break;
    case 'google':
        return 'this is google';
        break;
    case 'email':
        return 'this is email';
        break;

}

[__]

$social, as you explained, is an array. It will never match a string (which is what "facebook", "twitter", etc. are).

I don’t know your specific requirements, but it seems you only need to know which of your calls to ot_get_option returned true. Is this correct? If so,

<?php

function findSocial(){
    // list of social site names
    $social = array( "facebook","twitter","vimeo" /* etc. */ );

    // loop through each
    foreach( $social as $site ){

        // if ot_get_option matches, return that site name
        if( ot_get_option( $site ) ){
            return "this is $site";
        }
    }
    // no matches
    return false;
}

Usage:

echo findSocial();
/* prints something like:

    this is css-tricks

*/

You could also pass $social as a function parameter, which would make it much easier to add or remove names from the list.

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