Using a variable for an "if "condition

is this possible?

[rover]

Is there any way to have a condition for an if statement be evaluated according to its contents and not whether the variable is defined or not? In other words:

$a = 'no';

$the_condition = '$a == "yes"';

if($the_condition)

{

echo "$a is equal to yes";

}

else

{

echo "$a is not equal to yes";

}

This will always evaluate as true and print yes because $the_condition variable is defined.

Is there any syntax so that I can have it actually evaluate the condition within the variable and whether that is true or not?

[bedlam]

Sounds like a job for switch [php.net].

-b

[coopster]

A blast from the past ...

Variable condition statements [webmasterworld.com]

[rover]

Thanks very much, those posts helped me solve it using the eval function.