Troubleshooting “Unexpected T_ECHO” in ternary operator statement

Question

($DAO->get_num_rows() == 1) ? echo(\"is\") : echo(\"are\");

This dose not seem to be working for me as intended, I get an error \"Unexpected T_E

Answer 1

The ternary operator should result in a value -- and not echo it.

Here, you probably want this :

echo ($DAO->get_num_rows() == 1) ? "is" : "are";

If you want to use two echo, you'll have to work with an if/else block :

if ($DAO->get_num_rows() == 1) {
    echo "is";
} else {
    echo "are"
}

Which will do the same thing as the first portion of code using the ternary operator -- except it's a bit longer.