php if statement with one of two conditions if( a < b) or (b=0)

Question

I have some huge blocks of code and I would like to avoid using elseif so the question is : Is it possible to construct an IF function with two possibilities in the same statement ? something like

  if( a < b) or (b=0)
{
statement
}

Solution

if( ($a < $b) || ($b==0) )
{
     //do something
}

or even better

if( ($a < $b) || (0==$b) )
{
     //do something
}

so you don't accidentally assign 0 to $b.

Comments

[Subdigger]

or even if( $a < $b || $b==0 )

[Kaken Bok]

Who assigns 0 to b when writing b == 0?

[Luchian Grigore]

You can accidentally write b=0, like @ajreal did in his response about half an hour ago...