Overview of PHP shorthand

Question

I\'ve been programming in PHP for years now, but I\'ve never learned how to use any shorthand. I come across it from time to time in code and have a hard time reading it, s

Answer 1

PHP 5.3 introduced:

$foo = $bar ?: $baz;

which assigns the value of $bar to $foo if $bar evaluates to true (else $baz).

You can also nest the ternary operator (with proper use of parenthesis).

Other than that, there is not much else about it. You might want to read the documentation.