PHP - Use Ternary Operators

PHP – Use Ternary Operators

The benefit of the ternary operator is debatable (there’s only one, by the way). Here is a line of code from an audit we performed recently:

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	$host = strlen($host) &gt; 0 ? $host : htmlentities($host);

?&gt;

The ternary operator may be fine for one-liners, prototypes, and templates, but we strongly believe that an ordinary conditional statement is almost always better. PHP is descriptive and verbose. We think code should be, too.

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