Short hand IF statement

[scrupul0us]

its something i forget and its not on php.net... can someone tell me for the last time so i can make a sticky on my monitor

[NogDog]

Not sure what you are asking.

The only 3 variations on IF that I know of are:

if($condition)
   echo "Only execute this line."
if($condition)
{
   echo "Execute each line...";
   echo "...until you reach...";
   echo "...the closing brace.";
}
if($condition):
   echo "Execute each line...";
   echo "...until you reach..."
   echo "...the endif statement.";
endif;

[scrupul0us]

i was thinking of:

($a == $b) ? echo "they are equal" : echo "they are not equal";

[Weedpacket]

The conditional operator is its name. Too many people call it the ternary operator, but that's silly.

[NogDog]

Ahhh, the ternary operator.

[NogDog]

Weedpacket wrote:

The conditional operator is its name. Too many people call it the ternary operator, but that's silly.

One thing I miss in PHP that Perl has: the <=> operator -- just because everyone calls it the "spaceship operator". 🙂

[scrupul0us]

lol.. in class we called it the UFO (Unidentified Freakin Operator) 🙂

[Weedpacket]

Oh, but how can you complain when you've got the "Paamayim Nekudotayim operator"? I'm thinking of calling it "Klaatu Barada Nicto".