Re: repetition of tedious references

At 2:24 PM +0200 7/18/07, Olav Mørkrid wrote:

consider the following statement: $language = isset($_SERVER["HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE"]) && $_SERVER["HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE"] != "" ? $_SERVER["HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE"] : "*"; when using strings in arrays that may be non-existing or empty, you have to repeat the reference *three* times, which gets excessive and unreadable. is there any way to only have to write $_SERVER["HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE"] only once? i know it's possible to supress "is not set" with @, but that just seems wrong in case there really is an error in the statement. i love php, but this is one of my pet peeves.

Olav: Mine too. But, Rasmus gave me this: $action = isset($_GET['action']) ? $_GET['action'] : null; Which could be translated to: $language = isset ($_SERVER["HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE"]) ? ($_SERVER["HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE"]) : "*"; I think that might help. Anyone see a problem with it? Cheers, tedd -- ------- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com