Re: syntax question

It's fairly simple. The code you posted could also be written: if(strpos($a,'-')){ $a = explode('-',$a,2); }else{ $a = array($a); } It's called the ternary conditional operator. Unfortunatley, it's buried in the PHP manual. http://us2.php.net/manual/en/language.expressions.php Jimmy wrote:

I'm looking through some existing code for a project I'm working on, but I keep running into this syntax that I really don't understand. Here's an example: $a=strpos($a,'-')?explode('-',$a,2):array($a); What do the ? and the : do here? I'm seeing this sort of thing all over and just have no idea what ? : do. Thanks.

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