In my quest to master PHP, I’m going to start investigating some of the bits I’m unfamiliar with, and blogging about them.<\/p>\n
This morning, I was reading through the excellent “Professional WordPress Plugin Development” by Brad Williams, Ozh Richards and Justin Tadlock (I’ve made a resolution to read a bit every couple of days). In the user settings section there is an example of a ternary operator.<\/p>\n
[code lang=”php”]$lang = $_POST[‘boj_adminlang_lang’] == ‘es_ES’ ? ‘es_ES’ : ”;[\/code]<\/p>\n
Frankly, I’m\u00a0embarrassed\u00a0that I’ve come across this syntax so many times without taking the time to understand it. Especially because it is so simple.<\/p>\n
The above code is short for:<\/p>\n
[code lang=”php”]if( $_POST[‘boj_adminlang_lang’]\u00a0== ‘es_ES’\u00a0) {
\n$lang = ‘es_ES’ ;
\n} else {
\n$lang = ” ;
\n}[\/code]<\/p>\n
I’ve written so many statements using the longhand version. Time to level up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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