Dynamic Comparison Operators in PHP

Question

Is it possible, in any way, to pass comparison operators as variables to a function? I am looking at producing some convenience functions, for example (and I know this won't work):

function isAnd($var, $value, $operator = '==')
{
    if(isset($var) && $var $operator $value)
        return true;
}

if(isAnd(1, 1, '===')) echo 'worked';

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You can also use version_compare() function, as you can pass operator which will be used for comparison as third argument.

Answer 2

How about this one?

function num_cond ($var1, $op, $var2) {

    switch ($op) {
        case "=":  return $var1 == $var2;
        case "!=": return $var1 != $var2;
        case ">=": return $var1 >= $var2;
        case "<=": return $var1 <= $var2;
        case ">":  return $var1 >  $var2;
        case "<":  return $var1 <  $var2;
    default:       return true;
    }   
}

Test:

$ops = array( "=", "!=", ">=", "<=", ">", "<" );
$v1 = 1; $v2 = 5;

foreach ($ops as $op) {
    if (num_cond($v1, $op, $v2)) echo "True  ($v1 $op $v2)\n"; else echo "False ($v1 $op $v2)\n";
}