What is a more elegant solution to these nested if/elseif statements?

Question

I\'m building a website that contains users with user profiles. Many of the fields in the profile are optional.

There is an opportunity for a lot of user-generate

Answer 1

Somewhat less readable, but effective):

list($idx,$name) = array_shift(array_filter(array(
    $names['display_name'],
    implode(' ',array_filter(array($names['first_name'],$names['last_name']))),
    'user'.$names['id'];
    )));