It would be great if there was some method of PHP storing the last matched if condition. Allow me to demonstrate.

; --- Example

$myarray = array(
                 'this' => 'test',
                 'that' => 'fun',
                 );

if ($myarray['this'] == 'test')
{
  echo('The value is '.$myarray['this']);
}

Now, I'm suggesting something like $ifmatch (easy name) and it would work like so.

$ifmatch retains the first condition of an if () / elseif() that has matched (it's TRUE) like so:

if ($myarray['this'] == 'test')
{
  echo('The value is '.$ifmatch);
}

Where $ifmatch = 'test' (or, $array['this'] if you prefer)

You might wonder what the advantage is? Well, I think it's a lot easier and more functional to do this:

if ($myarray['this'] == 'test')
{
  echo('The value is '.$ifmatch);
}

Then:

if ($myarray['this'] == 'test')
{
  echo('The value is '.$myarray['this']);
}

Or:

$blah = $myarray['this'];

if ($blah == 'test')
{
  echo('The value is '.$blah);
}

I'm sure a lot of people could find use for this in the future.

Also, I'm not sure if this is a bug or not, but, the Manual says is_null() handles mixed variables, however, this returns false:

$test = NULL;
$blah = NULL;

echo((is_null($test,$blah) ? 'Yep' : 'Nope'));

This was tested on 2k with the standard Windows lastest version of PHP and Apache 1.3.x (last stable)

If is_null() can handle only 1 argument, please extend it for infinite args, I have coded my own routine for this but obviously PHP's internal would be faster.

Last, but not least, PHP is probably my favorite language, more so then C/C++, please keep up the good work, it's truely a fantastic language and you have all done a fantastic job with it (coders, documentation team, web team) ;-)

Thanks.