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You have to admit it.

The switch statement in PHP vis-a-vis to other language counter parts is very versatile and powerful.

It has support for  switching integer as well as characters and strings.

Further, as I discovered it the other day, it also supports ranges !.

[code lang="php"]
  switch(true)
    {
     case ($i==6):
        doSomething();
     break;
     case ($i >= 8 && $i <= 17):
         rangedData();
     break;
   }

[/code]

So basically, the 'case' statements can evaluate conditions. Conditional statements always return a true or a false.
Notice that we are switching 'true'. So we are saying , if ($i==6) is true, then proceed to the block and then break.

This evaluations in case statements along with the 'break;' and 'continue;' combinations make the PHP switch so powerful that it can completely replace the 'if...else' statements while keeping the code elegant !