Comments on: PHP Shorthand and Alternate Syntax: A quickie!

By: kevin

kevin — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 14:07:32 +0000

only thing i’d change is the lack of curly brackets. lol. great article!

By: Designerfoo

Designerfoo — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:42:21 +0000

I don’t think so, because a lot of widely used Open source software use the alternative syntax, what *might* be discarded would be the < ?= ?> type syntax. You can follow the thread on sitepoint here http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/php-34/no-alternative-syntax-php-6-a-616859.html and check in the list of changes drafted for PHP 6 here http://wiki.php.net/todo/php60

By: medina

medina — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 01:29:13 +0000

I’ve heard this alternative syntax will be ended up in the new version of the PHP, the 6.0. Could someone confirm it or not in definitely, please? Cheers.

By: Designerfoo

Designerfoo — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 06:37:18 +0000

Thanks Metrofax for pointing out the typos, glad you enjoyed the article!

By: MetroFax

MetroFax — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 23:37:24 +0000

Handy page, very clearly laid out, and I was only aware of the {} syntax myself till I read this.

I’d have to agree that the : method seems harder to read but still very simple and straight forward.

You might be testing readership with the “IF Statement in one line” section but there’s two typos you may want to fix for the OCD types:
“3 print $eatit = ($applet !=”gree”) ? “Eat” : “Dont Eat”;”
should be
“3 print $eatit = ($apple !=”green”) ? “Eat” : “Dont Eat”;”

Cheers!

By: Designerfoo

Designerfoo — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 07:28:47 +0000

Agreed!

By: Aaron

Aaron — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 06:17:07 +0000

using the if (…) :
endif;

syntax is great if you have blocks of html code in between your php. I find it’s easier to scan for endif; or endwhile; when there is mixed html and php rather than searching through code looking for that missing curly brace

By: Designerfoo

Designerfoo — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 05:31:31 +0000

Jason,

To each his own? I love the : syntax, It’s more clear to me than using { }, I love {} too. It might be hard to debug I will give you that, but how is it that its hard to read and ugly? Ternary operators would save you a lot bytes if you have a lot of “if”s in the code. JMPO.

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:19:17 +0000

You shouldn’t be advising people to use it, it’s pretty much the opposite of all the things you said it is.

It’s ugly.
It’s hard to read.
It’s hard to debug.

The ternary operator is okay, but normally in if statement is better due to readability.

That’s just my opinion, probably the same as many others I’d say.

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