Re: suggestion about ternary operator

On Friday 20 November 2009 11:12:29 pm Alban wrote: > This is not a big problem but if a solution exists, this would be so > cool ! Especialy when we have to check existance of twenty or more key in > array. Code would be be lighter and clear. I cannot comment on the rest of your post right now, but if you are checking for the existence of a bunch of keys in an associative array and setting defaults if they are not set, the following will be considerably faster and easier to read: $my_array += array( 'a' => 'A', 'b' => 'B', 'c' => 'C', ); That will set $my_array['a'] to A iff it doesn't exist, ['b'] to B iff it doesn't exist, etc. That is far nicer to read than a bunch of ternaries, short-circuited or no. You can even stick the defaults array into a function and call it from various places to ensure your array always has the same sane defaults. -- Larry Garfield larry@garfieldtech.com