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Comment on Use Ternary Operators by zane

zane — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 16:24:39 +0000

Personally I use them when ever possible, like most tools of the trade it has its uses, but can be abused.

Comment on PHP Community Code Review moderated by Tim Crider by zane

zane — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 16:20:36 +0000

The new location is great! WordPress Baltimore meets there as well, I’ve been considering renting space there as well.

Looking forward to this meetup

Comment on Using Lithium+MongoDB to launch private sale site Totsy.com by Quora

Quora — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 05:20:16 +0000

What are the most promising PHP 5.3 frameworks?…

I don’t, but there is an interesting case of study: http://www.totsy.com/ The last year they launch the site and made a presentation about it in 10gen (the people behind MongoDB): http://www.10gen.com/video/mongoboston2010/totsy Another ref: http://ww...

Comment on Use Ternary Operators by Tonsil

Tonsil — Thu, 19 May 2011 21:49:37 +0000

The ternary operator is like a gun – if you don’t know how it works, you shouldn’t use it. The example you gave doesn’t strike me as confusing in the least, but I do agree that it would be clearer with something like



if(!empty($host)) $host = htmlentities($host);

That said, I do like to use the ternary for dealing with default values, e.g.:



$host = isset($row['host']) ? $row['host'] : 'localhost';

and I really like the ability to leave out the middle condition since 5.3, much like the “or equal” ruby operator.

Comment on Use Ternary Operators by Owen Byrne

Owen Byrne — Thu, 19 May 2011 20:07:23 +0000

I’m not sure why you wouldn’t just do:



$host = htmlentities($host);

Comment on Use Ternary Operators by Matt

Matt — Thu, 19 May 2011 19:52:36 +0000

You can now post code in comments by wrapping code in [ code ] [/ code ] minus the spacing of course.



$foo = "Code in Comment";

echo $foo;

Comment on Use Ternary Operators by Travis Black

Travis Black — Thu, 19 May 2011 19:17:04 +0000

lol… your replies don’t allow php tags… which makes it hard to discuss php code…

Comment on Use Ternary Operators by Travis Black

Travis Black — Thu, 19 May 2011 19:16:06 +0000

I think ternary is great in templates.