How do I use the ternary operator ( ? : ) in PHP as a shorthand for “if / else”?

Question

Based on the examples from this page, I have the working and non-working code samples below.

Working code using if statement:

if (!empty         


        

Answer 1

Ternary Operator is basically shorthand for if/else statement. We can use to reduce few lines of code and increases readability.

Your code looks cleaner to me. But we can add more cleaner way as follows-

$test = (empty($address['street2'])) ? 'Yes
' : 'No
';

Another way-

$test = ((empty($address['street2'])) ? 'Yes
' : 'No
');

Note- I have added bracket to whole expression to make it cleaner. I used to do this usually to increase readability. With PHP7 we can use Null Coalescing Operator / php 7 ?? operator for better approach. But your requirement it does not fit.