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A solid, real question of mine w/ 18 up votes, 4 stars was removed. I want to know why. It was posted on September 7, 2010 and closed on September 11, 2012, a full two years later.

Are "elseif" and "else if" completely synonymous?

They say it was not a constructive question, but 18 people and myself think it is. I am a PHP veteran and even I was not sure of the differences.

I want to know why it was closed. They say it's not a "constructive" question. Well, here it is:

Are elseif and else if completely synonymous?

Does Zend have an accepted "standard" on which one to use?

I personally greatly dislike seeing elseif in the code. Just use else if like every other language, right? But I just need to know if they're synonymous and the PHP manual isn't the easiest to search.

The answer received 34 net upvotes.

Here's a mirror: http://www.permamarks.net/grabbed_urls/OQhBYg/webcache.googleusercontent.com_38.htmlz

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closed as off-topic by CRABOLO, Martijn Pieters, Doorknob, Aziz Shaikh, gnat Jan 22 '15 at 13:48

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    Looks like a valid question to me. Voted to undelete. – Mysticial Nov 15 '12 at 23:03
  • I personally found this question useful. I remember looking at it not even a few months ago because I was, myself, curious. I'm surprised to see it deleted. – animuson♦ Nov 15 '12 at 23:06
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    Just a note, "I want" scans badly for me. It may not for other people but, to me, it sounds quite confrontational in this context. – ben is uǝq backwards Nov 15 '12 at 23:10
  • It has now been undeleted. – ChrisF♦ Nov 15 '12 at 23:11
  • Some of the characters involved in meta.stackexchange.com/questions/146985/… also voted to close that question... hmm... – Theodore R. Smith Nov 15 '12 at 23:15
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    "Post Deleted by tereško, Baba, PeeHaa, John Saunders, AVD" Gee, why am I not surprised? – NullUserException อ_อ Nov 16 '12 at 0:22
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The only two things I can think of that make this question unconstructive:

  1. You added a line in there about your personal preference.
  2. Both of your questions could technically be answered with yes or no.

The question has been undeleted. I've also edited it to remove some of the subjectiveness of your opinions, and also made it so the question isn't so yes/no looking. Other than that, this question is legitimate and the answer does an excellent job at explaining it. A lot of people in PHP complain over others using one syntax versus the other (my friend has asked me before why I include spaces, and I just told him it's my preference), and it's nice to have a question and answer that explains that it really doesn't matter.

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  • +1 Thank you for the restoration and clean up efforts! – Theodore R. Smith Nov 15 '12 at 23:18

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