Ternary operators and variable reassignment in PHP

Question

I\'ve perused the questions on ternary operators vs. if/else structures, and while I understand that under normal circumstances there is no performance los

Answer 1

In this cases, I use the form presented by BoltClock:

if (strlen($foo) > 3) {
    $foo = substr($foo, 0, 3);
}

PHP does not implement something more simple to work in this cases, yet :/