If and else if in PHP, colon style

Question

One function of PHP that I like to use is the colon-style if statement (I don\'t know what it\'s actually called.)

Answer 1

I was able to get it to work.

In this very specific case, else if is not synonymous with elseif.

Substituting elseif for else if fixes the issue.

From PHP.net:

Note: Note that elseif and else if will only be considered exactly the same when using curly brackets as in the above example. When using a colon to define your if/elseif conditions, you must not separate else if into two words, or PHP will fail with a parse error.