How do you handle huge if-conditions?

Question

It\'s something that\'s bugged me in every language I\'ve used, I have an if statement but the conditional part has so many checks that I have to split it over multiple lines, u

Answer 1

In reflective languages like PHP, you can use variable-variables:

$vars = array('var1', 'var2', ... etc.);
foreach ($vars as $v)
    if ($$v == true) {
        // do something
        break;
    }