Created as a funny response to a programmer joke meme about using switch case instead of ifelse... however this code turns out to work and could be useful in some weird usecase so here it is.

switch_case_if_else.php

<?php

$switch_case = 'something';  // define anything as your variable, doesn't have to be a string can be any type 

if (isset($switch_case)) {
    switch ($switch_case) { 
        case 'true': 
            echo "switch_case is true";
            break; 
        case 'false': 
            echo "switch_case is false";
            break; 
        default: 
            if (is_int($switch_case)) { 
                echo "switch_case is an integer";
            } elseif (is_string($switch_case)) {
                echo "switch_case is a string";
            } elseif (is_bool($switch_case)) { 
                echo "switch_case is a boolean value";
            } elseif (is_object($switch_case)) {
                echo "switch_case is an object";
            } elseif (is_array($switch_case)) {
                echo "switch_case is an array";
            } elseif ($switch_case != null) { 
                echo "switch_case is defined but unknown";
            } else { 
                echo "nothing matched";
            }
            break; 
    }
}
?>