short syntax

daarius

if (isset($name))
   print $name;

shorter:

print ((isset($name)) ? $name : NULL);

so, is there anything even shorter?

e.g. in above short form, we are using $name twice. in dream world i would like to do something like:

print useif (isset($name));

i.e. no "else" is required if its not set.

any ideas?

Daarius...

tomhath

Looks like something you could write a one line function to do, but (other than fewer keystrokes) it would be less efficient.

Your first way of doing it is clear and easy to maintain, what's wrong with that? (and by the way, your second snippet is longer not shorter...)

Weedpacket

Of course, if $name is not set, then NULL is what gets printed when you go

echo $name;

. You just get warned about using undefined variables, but you can turn those off.

But does anyone really care how short it can get?

Wave

i agree with tomhath.

shorter isn't better, at least in programming.

imho, your first snippet with a small addition is a good style.

if (isset($name)){
   print $name;
}

intenz

Stupid function but it's SHORT 🙂

function shortif($var)
{
     echo isset($var) ? $var : null;
}
$theVar = 'foo';
shortif($theVar);

daarius

sorry i should have made myself bit more clear.

lets consider following example:

$myVar = 'If you have value, the its:  '.((isset($name)) ? $name : NULL);

what i am saying that the bit with "NULL" is not required here. and if the var names are quite big e.g. $this->oObj->oAnotherObj->_aData['phase'] than you would see that its getting quite messy. e.g. it would be:

((isset($this->oObj->oAnotherObj->_aData['phase'])) ? $this->oObj->oAnotherObj->_aData['phase'] : NULL);

ideally something like this would be much neater:

useif (isset($this->oObj->oAnotherObj->_aData['phase']));

see what i mean? i am only typing out the var itself once, and thats all i should be doing. i dont want to type it out again if it is set!