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Ternary Operator In PHP

In this article, we will discuss ternary operators in PHP.

Software Requirement

Before you start reading this tutorial you should make sure that: -

XAMPP is installed on your machine
Any text editor like Notepad

Technical Knowledge

To understand this article, you should be aware of conditional statements in PHP.

What Is A Ternary Operation?

A ternary operator takes 3 arguments: -

First argument is the comparison argument
Second argument is the result of a true comparison
Third argument is the result of a false comparison

Syntax

Comparison? result of true comparison : result of false comparison;

Why Should I Use Ternary Operator?

In simple words, the ternary operator simplifies if-else. To illustrate, let us work on an example.

Consider a scenario, in which we need to check if the person is eligible to vote or not. Let us first implement it using if-else.

if($age < 18)
    echo("Not eligible to vote");
else
    echo("Eligible to vote");

In the sample code above, we are using 4 lines of code to do the comparison. Now, let us use the ternary operator.

echo ($age < 18?"Not eligible to vote":"Eligible to vote");

Here the same logic is written in a single line.

Posted By -	Karan Gupta

Posted On -	Monday, October 13, 2014

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