Better way to do this?

Hi,

I am starting out with PHP and I'm working on a small project to take an id and map it against other id's. Is there a better way to code this? The mapping of page_id's will expand. This is inside a javascript as you can see the echo is for a var which the js then reads.

<?
$raw_page_id = htmlspecialchars($_REQUEST['pageid'], ENT_QUOTES);

if ( $raw_page_id == "83517543-blackberry") { echo "var pr_page_id = '83517543';"; }
elseif ( $raw_page_id == "83517543-capuccino") { echo "var pr_page_id = '83517543';"; }
elseif ( $raw_page_id == "83517543-blue") { echo "var pr_page_id = '83517543';"; }


else{ echo "var pr_page_id = '$raw_page_id';";} ?>

Is it always the first number part of the page ID? There might be an easier way to fix this: are you using URL rewriting? What do you have in place for that?

No. Basically it is a manual mapping of various product id's that we want to manually map to other product id's. This is code within a javascript and I need to change the var to the manually mapped product id.

Well that sucks.

You can stuff everything into a database and look it up there, or build a gigantic array of all the pairs.