Best way to give a variable a default value (simulate Perl ||, ||= )

Question

I love doing this sort of thing in Perl: $foo = $bar || $baz to assign $baz to $foo if $bar is empty or undefined. You al

Answer 1

this is another good format for the isset case

isset($foo) || $foo= $bar;

another simple way and will give you more control as you can add more conditions and assign to another variable in the same time

$foo = (isset($oData['foo']))?$bar['foo']:'default value';