Short Hand If Statment Help

mrxxlphp

Hi guys, does anyone know how I can turn a boolean function statement like this into a short hand if statment? I have tried in a few ways and I am getting syntax errors.

       if (strstr($ping,"100% packet loss")) {
                return FALSE;
        } else {
                return TRUE;
        }

Thanks, Stuart

NogDog

Do you mean something like this?

$isFound = (bool) strstr($ping, "100&#37; packet loss");

mrxxlphp

Thanks for your help. I'm not getting the results I expect from the example below:

function FooBar($host) {
    $ping = shell_exec('/bin/ping -c 1 -q '. $host);
    $isFound = (bool) strstr($ping, "100&#37; packet loss"); 
    return $isfound;
}

Basically if the string $ping doesnt contain 100% then I want to return TRUE if it does contain 100% I want to return FALSE. At the moment I have done an if statement as per above. I would like to condense this down to a single line if I can.

Thanks, Stuart

dagon

stuartbaggs;10956759 wrote:
I would like to condense this down to a single line if I can.

remove all the line breaks then :rolleyes:

but seriously, why?

NogDog

Well, to start with, what exactly are you getting with this part?

$ping = shell_exec('/bin/ping -c 1 -q '. $host);

Are you sure the string "100% packet loss" is in there, and if so, remember strstr() is case-sensitive. Maybe you should first check that $ping is not empty?