PHP: Ternary Operator
Filed Under (General) by Wenbert on 07-05-2008
Tagged Under : PHP, ternary operator
This is one my favorites. Sometimes I use this when I come around “short” conditions in variable assignments.
Instead of writing something like this:
if (isset($myvar)) {
$temp = $myvar;
} else {
$temp = ""; //i need to set this so that when I echo this, it won’t show a warning
}
$temp = $myvar;
} else {
$temp = ""; //i need to set this so that when I echo this, it won’t show a warning
}
I just use the ternary operator to make things easier to read by doing something like this:
Now how does it work? Basically, the syntax of the ternary operator is:
(condition)?“execute when true”:“execute when false”
On first glance it is confusing to use, but trust me, once you get the hang of it, you won’t be able to live without it.
I agree…the Ternary operator is the best.. It saves a lot of lines of coding. Though i do agree that it takes some time to get use to writing if/else like this.
It took me a couple of days to get used to it. What I did is that I got a small piece of paper and wrote the syntax and posted it on the side of my monitor. Some sort of cheatsheet…