It seems rather handy. I'm playing around with it to make the code a little more sensible. All the if/else statements get a little l-o-o-o-n-g for short things.
Vincent Puglia posted this at 10:51 — 16th August 2003.
I wasn't around for 65, on the wrong side for 77, lucky me, moved back for 03.
I was trying to find out what it was called because I couldn't dig up information without the real term. I wanted to see if I could, er, force it to do something else. (I can't -- but I figured it out anyway).
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Suzanne posted this at 01:36 — 16th August 2003.
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ternary operator is what it's called. Whee! nevermind.
http://uk.php.net/language.operators.comparison for more info (it's the example)
Mark Hensler posted this at 01:39 — 16th August 2003.
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lol
It operates exactly like this:
if (condition) { true_statement } else { false_statement }
I find it very usefull for inline conditions. For example, making things plural...
echo $months.' month'.($months==1 ? '' : 's');
possible ouputs:
0 months
1 month
2 months
3 months
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Suzanne posted this at 01:41 — 16th August 2003.
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It seems rather handy. I'm playing around with it to make the code a little more sensible. All the if/else statements get a little l-o-o-o-n-g for short things.
Vincent Puglia posted this at 10:51 — 16th August 2003.
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Hi Suzanne,
It's the same in javascript:
var myVar = (conditional) ? trueStatement : falseStatement;
btw: that makes 3 blackouts for me (65,77,03)
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Suzanne posted this at 16:30 — 16th August 2003.
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I wasn't around for 65, on the wrong side for 77, lucky me, moved back for 03.
I was trying to find out what it was called because I couldn't dig up information without the real term. I wanted to see if I could, er, force it to do something else.
(I can't -- but I figured it out anyway).
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