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Glenn:

Very cool solution.

I tried writing a couple of simple cases. Here's what I came up with:

This one is very clean, but it breaks up the search key and options into two 
tables. This provides a lot of flexibility, but is a bit hard on the eyes -- 
easy to make a mistake in the options table.

$lookup = array(
	array('pending','pending','pending'),
	array('pending','pending','inprocess'),
	array('pending','pending','completed'),
	array('pending','inprocess','inprocess'),
	array('pending','completed','inprocess'));

$options = array('dothis',
		'dothat',
		'dotheotherthing',
		'dothis',
		'anotheroption');

$currentstate = array('pending','pending','completed');

$key = array_search($state, $lookup);

if ($key === false)
	echo 'not in lookup table';
else
        echo $options[$key];

This one combines the "needle" with the resultant process . Very easy to 
follow and maintain, but the computational load for the implodes concerns 
me. I guess some sort of precompile could be implemented.

$lookup2 = array(
	implode(array('pending','pending','pending')) => 'do this',
	implode(array('pending','pending','inprocess')) => 'do that',
	implode(array('pending','pending','completed')) => 'do something',
	implode(array('pending','inprocess','inprocess')) => 'do another',
	implode(array('pending','completed','inprocess')) => 'do whatever');

$state2 = implode(array('pending','pending','completed'));

if (array_key_exists($state2, $lookup2))
      echo $lookup2[$state2];
else
	echo 'not in lookup table';