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  Tom Elders

  5 months ago

  I think describing the ternary operator "?" as an if statement is a bit misleading. For example, inside a while loop:
  
  while($row = mysql_fetch_row):
  if($condition = true) { $something = $value }
  endwhile;
  
  that works. However, consider the following
  
  while($row = mysql_fetch_row):
  $something = ($condition = $true) ? $value : null;
  endwhile;
  
  If the condition is met, everything works fine, but on the next iteration of the loop, if the condition is not met, $something is set to null, which is probably not the desired effect 9 times out of 10.
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  peace love

  5 months ago

  Thats a great shorthand, and gives good readability!
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  Sagar

  1 month ago

  yes, ternary condition does give a problem
  
  I would advise the following as well
  
  while($row = mysql_fetch_row):
  if($condition = true) { $something = $value }
  endwhile;
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  Sagar

  1 month ago

  My above suggestion is the same as what Tom Elders suggested. I support it
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