Re: Re: what's the difference in the following code?
| From: | Robert Cummings | Date: | Sat, 18 Oct 2008 18:34:05 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: what's the difference in the following code? | ||
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On Sat, 2008-10-18 at 08:44 -0700, Yeti wrote:
> I would understand it if it was like this ..
>
> <?php
> $search = isset($_GET['search']) ? $_GET['search'] : '';
> # versus
> if (isset($_GET['search'])) { $search = $_GET['search']; }
> ?>
>
> In the first statement $search would either be set to $_GET['search']
> or an empty string, whereas in the second statement $search would only
> be set, if there is a $_GET['search']
Wrong. They are equivalent. The second is probably just easier to follow
with a clearly defined default value outside the conditional block.
Cheers,
Rob.
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