note 119773 rejected from language.operators.logical by cmb

Note Submitter: younes dot k dot developer at gmail dot com ---- hey i saw something weird in a php framework like this : $id || $data['created'] = $now; is this mean if $id is NULL then $data['created'] ll receive $now variable, why there is not if and its just a regular statement , so if this what am thinking of so if is useless and the language so freaky illogic , any one can gave a name to this think? i search in google about "logic operation in normal statement php " nothing founds, i tried out a lot of keywords cant find something about it, if some1 can at least how it call this sh...t , pls help me thx in advance