[pmwiki-users] Avoiding the in_array() PHP built-in function

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 07:15:46PM -0700, H. Fox wrote:
> What is a better way of doing the following:
> 
>   $Actions_allowed =
>     array('browse','print','search','edit','login', 'rss', 'atom');
>   if (! in_array($action, $Actions_allowed)) { # Do something. }

I tend to use things like:

    $Actions_allowed = array(
      'browse' => 1, 'print' => 1, 'search' => 1, 'edit' => 1,
      'login' => 1, 'rss' => 1, 'atom' => 1);
    if (!@$Actions_allowed[$action]) { # Do something }

Pm