Using For and Switch in place of a bunch of if statements.

Question

Ex 1:
if (condition) {
if (condition) {
if (condition) {
Some code...
}
}
}

Ex 2:
For ($i = 0; $i <= 3; $i++) {
switch ($i) {
case 1:
if (condition) {
Some code...
} else {
$i = 4;
}
break;
case 2:
if (condition) {
Some code...
} else {
$i = 4;
}
break;
case 3:
if (condition) {
Some code...
} else {
$i = 4;
}
break;
}
}

My question is if example 2 is acceptable to use because I feel like when you have more than like 5 if statements than example 2 would probably be easier to manage.

Answer 1

The 1st example is not the same as the 2nd.
It's a nested conditional.

The equivalent of the switch statement is something like this:

if (condition) {...}
else if (condition) {...}
else if (condition) {...}
...
else {...}

switch is a good choice even if you have two or more if conditions