PHP if shorthand and echo in one line - possible?

Question

What\'s the best, preferred way of writing if shorthand one-liner such as:

expression ? $foo : $bar

Plot twist: I need to echo $foo

Answer 1

The ternary operator evaluates to the value of the second expression if the first one evaluates to TRUE, and evaluates to the third expression if the first evaluates to FALSE. To echo one value or the other, just pass the ternary expression to the echo statement.

echo expression ? $foo : $bar;

Read more about the ternary operator in the PHP manual for more details: http://php.net/manual/en/language.operators.comparison.php#language.operators.comparison.ternary