PHP Switch Case Example

Choose between many branches with switch and match in PHP. Edit the code below and press Run to execute it with real PHP in your browser.

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Output 
Start of the week

How this switch case example works

switch compares the value against each case using loose comparison (==). Execution continues until a break, which is why "Saturday" and "Sunday" can share one branch. Forgetting break makes the code "fall through" into the next case.

The PHP 8 match expression

match uses strict comparison, never falls through, returns a value and throws an UnhandledMatchError if nothing matches and there is no default.

<?php
$day = "Sunday";
echo match ($day) {
    "Monday" => "Start of the week",
    "Friday" => "End of the week",
    "Saturday", "Sunday" => "Weekend",
    default => "Midweek",
};

Output:

Weekend