Dynamic Comparison Operators in PHP

You can also use version_compare() function, as you can pass operator which will be used for comparison as third argument.

How about this one?

function num_cond ($var1, $op, $var2) {

    switch ($op) {
        case "=":  return $var1 == $var2;
        case "!=": return $var1 != $var2;
        case ">=": return $var1 >= $var2;
        case "<=": return $var1 <= $var2;
        case ">":  return $var1 >  $var2;
        case "<":  return $var1 <  $var2;
    default:       return true;
    }   
}

Test:

$ops = array( "=", "!=", ">=", "<=", ">", "<" );
$v1 = 1; $v2 = 5;

foreach ($ops as $op) {
    if (num_cond($v1, $op, $v2)) echo "True  ($v1 $op $v2)\n"; else echo "False ($v1 $op $v2)\n";
}

How about a small class:

class compare
{
  function is($op1,$op2,$c)
  {
     $meth = array('===' => 'type_equal', '<' => 'less_than');
     if($method = $meth[$c]) {
        return $this->$method($op1,$op2);
     }
     return null; // or throw excp.
  }
  function type_equal($op1,$op2)
  {
      return $op1 === $op2;
  }
  function less_than($op1,$op2)
  {
      return $op1 < $op2;
  }
}