(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)
经常需要在满足某个条件时执行一条语句，而在不满足该条件时执行其它语句，这正是
else 的功能。else 延伸了
if 语句，可以在 if
语句中的表达式的值为 false 时执行语句。例如以下代码在
$a 大于 $b 时显示
a is bigger than b，反之则显示
a is NOT bigger than b：
<?php
if ($a > $b) {
echo "a is greater than b";
} else {
echo "a is NOT greater than b";
}
?>else 语句仅在 if 以及
elseif（如果有的话）语句中的表达式的值为
false 时执行（参见 elseif）。
注意: 悬挂的 else
在多层嵌套
if-else语句的情况下，else总是与最近的if进行关联。虽然存在缩进（对 PHP 来说，无关紧要）， 但是<?php
$a = false;
$b = true;
if ($a)
if ($b)
echo "b";
else
echo "c";
?>else还是与if ($b)进行关联，所以以上示例不会产生任何输出。虽然可以依赖此特性，但是推荐使用花括号，避免潜在的歧义问题。
An alternative and very useful syntax is the following one:statement ? execute if true : execute if falseThs is very usefull for dynamic outout inside strings, for example:print('$a is ' . ($a > $b ? 'bigger than' : ($a == $b ? 'equal to' : 'smaler than' )) . ' $b');This will print "$a is smaler than $b" is $b is bigger than $a, "$a is bigger than $b" if $a si bigger and "$a is equal to $b" if they are same.If you're coming from another language that does not have the "elseif" construct (e.g. C++), it's important to recognise that "else if" is a nested language construct and "elseif" is a linear language construct; they may be compared in performance to a recursive loop as opposed to an iterative loop. <?php$limit=1000;for($idx=0;$idx<$limit;$idx++) { $list[]="if(false) echo \"$idx;\n\"; else"; }$list[]=" echo \"$idx\n\";";$space=implode(" ",$list);| // if ... else if ... else$nospace=implode("",$list); // if ... elseif ... else$start=array_sum(explode(" ",microtime()));eval($space);$end=array_sum(explode(" ",microtime()));echo $end-$start . " seconds\n";$start=array_sum(explode(" ",microtime()));eval($nospace);$end=array_sum(explode(" ",microtime()));echo $end-$start . " seconds\n";?>This test should show that "elseif" executes in roughly two-thirds the time of "else if". (Increasing $limit will also eventually cause a parser stack overflow error, but the level where this happens is ridiculous in real world terms. Nobody normally nests if() blocks to more than a thousand levels unless they're trying to break things, which is a whole different problem.)There is still a need for "else if", as you may have additional code to be executed unconditionally at some rung of the ladder; an "else if" construction allows this unconditional code to be elegantly inserted before or after the entire rest of the process. Consider the following elseif() ladder:<?phpif($a) { conditional1(); }elseif($b) { conditional2(); }elseif($c) { conditional3(); }elseif($d) { conditional4(); }elseif($e) { conditional5(); }elseif($f) { conditional6(); }elseif($g) { conditional7(); }elseif($h) { conditional8(); }else { conditional9(); }?>To insert unconditional preprocessing code for $e onward, one need only split the "elseif":<?phpif($a) { conditional1(); }elseif($b) { conditional2(); }elseif($c) { conditional3(); }elseif($d) { conditional4(); }else {....unconditional();....if($e) { conditional5(); }....elseif($f) { conditional6(); }....elseif($g) { conditional7(); }....elseif($h) { conditional8(); }....else { conditional9(); }}?>The alternative is to duplicate the unconditional code throughout the construct.