Re: [chiPHPug-discuss] "10 Advanced PHP Tips"

[Wilfried S. <ws...@de...>]

Which is why you only use it in your view, not in your biz logic. The  
goal is clean, short, and survivable. The example they have on the  
manpage there is awful... I'd consider that borderline obfuscation.

On Mar 30, 2009, at 15:47 , Jason Rexilius wrote:

> The example they give on the man page is enlightening if you think  
> about
> it from the point of view of some college kid who had java or .net
> classes and is learning PHP on the job doing maintenance on some  
> legacy
> code base:
>
> <?php
> // Example usage for: Ternary Operator
> $action = (empty($_POST['action'])) ? 'default' : $_POST['action'];
>
> // The above is identical to this if/else statement
> if (empty($_POST['action'])) {
>     $action = 'default';
> } else {
>     $action = $_POST['action'];
> }
>
> ?>
>
>
> While the ternary operation is shorter and more terse, the standard
> if/else method will be easier for them to follow.
>
>
> Again, its about survivable code not shortest code.  In order to  
> survive
> it has to live in the real world which often has people of various  
> skill
> levels interacting with it over time..
>
> But, I'm just a curmudgeon ;-)
>
>
>
>
>
> Jough Dempsey wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Wilfried Schobeiri <ws...@de... 
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Was hoping that http://wiki.php.net/rfc/ifsetor/s suggested "?:"  
>>> would
>>> be accepted.
>>
>> It was.  You can short-circuit ternary operations in PHP 5.3:
>>
>> http://us2.php.net/ternary
>>
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