What is a more elegant solution to these nested if/elseif statements?

Question

I\'m building a website that contains users with user profiles. Many of the fields in the profile are optional.

There is an opportunity for a lot of user-generate

Answer 1

Using ternary conditions we can shorten and beautify the code:

public function nameify($names = NULL) {
    $name = 'NULL';

    if (!empty($names)) {

        $name = ($names['display_name']) ? $names['display_name'] : trim($names['first_name']." ".$names['last_name']);

        if(!$name) $name = ($names['id'] > 0) ? 'user'.$names['id'] : 'NULL';
    }

    return $name;
}