help with trinary clause

[lucilue2003]

can some1 please tell me what this trinary clause means

get_magic_quotes_gpc() ? $loginUsername : addslashes($loginUsername), get_magic_quotes_gpc() ? $password : addslashes($password));

[devinemke]

i assume you mean "ternary". anyway, here's the basic idea...

this:

$loginUsername = (get_magic_quotes_gpc()) ? $loginUsername : addslashes($loginUsername);

is exactly the same as this:

if (get_magic_quotes_gpc())
{
	$loginUsername = $loginUsername;
}
else
{
	$loginUsername = addslashes($loginUsername);
}