How can conditional statements in PHP be improved to handle multiple cases more efficiently, especially when the same output is expected for most conditions?

When dealing with multiple cases in conditional statements where the same output is expected for most conditions, you can use a switch statement instead of multiple if-else statements. Switch statements provide a cleaner and more efficient way to handle multiple conditions with the same output. 

// Example of using a switch statement to handle multiple cases efficiently
$day = "Monday";

switch ($day) {
    case "Monday":
    case "Tuesday":
    case "Wednesday":
    case "Thursday":
    case "Friday":
        echo "It's a weekday.";
        break;
    case "Saturday":
    case "Sunday":
        echo "It's the weekend.";
        break;
    default:
        echo "Invalid day.";
}

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PHP conditional statements efficiency multiple cases output.

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