Suzanne — Sat, 16 Aug 2003 16:30:43 +0000

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).

Vincent Puglia — Sat, 16 Aug 2003 10:51:48 +0000

Hi Suzanne,

It's the same in javascript:

var myVar = (conditional) ? trueStatement : falseStatement;

btw: that makes 3 blackouts for me (65,77,03)
Vinny

Suzanne — Sat, 16 Aug 2003 01:41:17 +0000

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.

Mark Hensler — Sat, 16 Aug 2003 01:39:57 +0000

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

Suzanne — Sat, 16 Aug 2003 01:36:54 +0000

ternary operator is what it's called. Whee! nevermind.

http://uk.php.net/language.operators.comparison for more info (it's the example)