Re: Like ternary but without the else.

Chris W. Parker wrote:

Hello, I couldn't find this anywhere on google or PHP's site but I'm pretty sure there's an answer to it. How can I turn the following into something that resembles the ternary operator?

write an extension to the php engine? don't think it exists.

<?php if($something) {

    $this = $that;

}

just do: if ($something) $this = $that; ..personally I don't like braceless if statements.

?>

or one of these might work for you; $this = ($something) ? $that: $this; // if $this already exists. or $this = ($something) ? $that: null; // if $this does not exist and your happy to use is_null()

I seem to remember it looking something like: <?php $this = ($something) || $that; ?>

btw your not using 'this' as an actual variable name are you? (unless its on purpose for doing bad(tm) things in php4 :-)

Although this isn't syntactically wrong, i.e. no errors, it did not do what I hoped it would do. (What it does is assign 1/true.)

what it does is assign the result of the expression (($something) _or_ $that) to $this. if either of those equate to true (dont forget php autotypecasts), then the expression is true, its a boolean 'or' so it will always make $this a boolean, which print as: php -r 'echo true;' // echos 1 php -r 'echo false;' // echos ''

Thanks! Chris. p.s. No need to respond if your suggestion is: <?php if($something) { $this = $that; } ?>