[PHP] Shortcuts of If-Else statement

Camilo III — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 08:58:48 +0000

When I learn PHP last September 2005, I was little bit confuse in PHP if-else statement… especially a statement contains with ? and : but somehow, I got it right. I post this cause somebody ask again what’s the difference. So told him, its all the same and its just a shortcuts.

$authenticated = true;

// [1] standard if-else statement
if ($authenticated)
{
echo ‘YES’;
}
else
{
echo ‘NO’;
}

// same with [1]
if ($authenticated) { echo ‘YES’; } else { echo ‘NO’; }

// [2] lil bit shortcut
if ($authenticated)
echo ‘YES’;
else
echo ‘NO’;

// [3] the shortcut
echo $result = ($authenticated) ? ‘YES’ : ‘NO’;

Or let me say its an evolution of if-else statement… Hahaha.. or maybe the laziness of the programmer. So got it? hehehehe..

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[PHP] Shortcuts of If-Else statement