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agh

Reputation: 409

php shorthand if

I'm struggling to understand why the following code is echoing out 'FOO2' when i'm expecting 'FOO1'

$tmp = 'foo1';
echo $tmp == 'foo1' ? 'FOO1' : $tmp == 'foo2' ? 'FOO2' : 'NO FOO';

Upvotes: 0

Views: 4306

Answers (4)

knittl
knittl

Reputation: 265161

basically PHP breaks this down to:

$tmp = 'foo1';
echo ($tmp == 'foo1' ? 'FOO1' : $tmp == 'foo2') ? 'FOO2' : 'NO FOO';

the part in parentheses will return FOO1 which evaluates to TRUE so the second conditional statement essentially is TRUE ? 'FOO2' : 'NO FOO'; – which in turn always evaluates to 'FOO2'

Note: This is different from C ternary operator associativity

Upvotes: 4

vascowhite
vascowhite

Reputation: 18440

$tmp = 'foo1';
if($tmp == 'foo1') echo 'FOO1';
else if($tmp == 'foo2') echo 'FOO2';

As you have just found out, ternary operators are a minefield of confusion, especially when you try to nest stack them. Don't do it!

Edit:
The PHP manual also recommends not stacking ternary operators:-

It is recommended that you avoid "stacking" ternary expressions. PHP's behaviour when using more than one ternary operator within a single statement is non-obvious:

See example 3 on this page of the PHP Manual

Upvotes: 1

TheSystem
TheSystem

Reputation: 1119

$tmp = 'foo1';
echo $tmp == 'foo1' ? 'FOO1' : ($tmp == 'foo2' ? 'FOO2' : 'NO FOO');

Upvotes: 0

Subdigger
Subdigger

Reputation: 2193

$tmp = 'foo1';
echo $tmp == 'foo1' ? 'FOO1' : ($tmp == 'foo2' ? 'FOO2' : 'NO FOO');

Upvotes: 8

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