lse{
$theValue ="NULL";
}
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From: "Jeff Field" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 6:23 PM
Subject: [PHP] what does this mean in plain english?
> Hi. I'm fairly new to PHP and programming in
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 12:23:45PM -0500, Jeff Field wrote:
> I'm stumped by the
> exact meaning in the following function of what the question mark's ("?")
> and colon's (":"), mean and do?
That's the "ternary" comparison operator. See
http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.operators.comparison
On 17 May 2002 at 12:23, Jeff Field wrote:
> $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? "'" . $theValue . "'" : "NULL";
It's a shortened version of the if...else construct. As in...
condition ? this_if_true : this_if_false
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Stuart
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Hi. I'm fairly new to PHP and programming in general. I'm learning mostly
by deconstructing what others have written...but even though I have plenty
of PHP books and have searched the Internet high and low, I'm stumped by the
exact meaning in the following function of what the question mark's ("?
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