NYCPHP Meetup

[Aaron Fischer]

Awesome, thanks for the description!  That's very helpful, as is the 
link as well. 

I'd like to say that this list rocks, as usual.

Cheers,

-Aaron
 

Michael Sims wrote:

>On Friday 30 September 2005 12:36, Aaron Fischer wrote:
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>>The symbols in question are ? and :
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>?: is the "ternary operator".  Google for that and you should get plenty of 
>information.
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>http://ca.php.net/manual/en/language.operators.comparison.php#language.operators.comparison.ternary
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>A ? B : C
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>can be roughly translated as "test A, and pick B or C depending on how A's 
>test came out".
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>>1)  $argv = isset($_SERVER['argv']) ? $_SERVER['argv'] : NULL;
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>So this is saying if the _SERVER variable argv is set, then set the local 
>variable argv with that value; otherwise set it to NULL.  The more direct 
>approach:
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>$argv = $_SERVER['argv'];
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>will throw an error if $_SERVER['argv'] doesn't exist.  (Actually, it will 
>throw a notice, not an error, and the script will continue to execute, and 
>the functional effect will be very similar, but using the ternary operator 
>is certainly more elegant.)
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