Is there a better PHP way for getting default value by key from array (dictionary)?

Question

In Python one can do:

foo = {}
assert foo.get(\'bar\', \'baz\') == \'baz\'

In PHP one can go for a trinary operator as in:<

Answer 1

PHP 5.3 has a shortcut version of the ternary operator:

$x = $foo ?: 'defaultvaluehere';

which is basically

if (isset($foo)) {
   $x = $foo;
else {
   $x = 'defaultvaluehere';
}

Otherwise, no, there's no shorter method.