[RESOLVED] if shortcuts...

[mrbaseball34]

Trying to do this but getting errors:

echo (($visitteam == "")?"    <visitteam></visitteam>":"    <visitteam>".trim($visitteam)."</visitteam>");

What I want is shortcut to this:

if ($visitteam == "") { 
  echo "    <visitteam></visitteam>"
}  else {
  echo "    <visitteam>".trim($visitteam)."</visitteam>"
};

What am I doing wrong, here, I couldn't find this in the docs.

[Roger_Ramjet]

Why do you want to use that horrible thing, the ternary operator? ?

[mrbaseball34]

less code...

here's the solution:

echo "    <visitteam>".($visitteam == "" ? "</visitteam>" : trim($visitteam)."</visitteam>");

[coreyp_1]

it may not matter, but you don't need an IF statement at all.

echo "    <visitteam>".trim($visitteam)."</visitteam>";

this code will give the right output regardless of whether or not $visitteam is an empty string ("").