Latoto page about linux, php, ruby, python and some other technologies.

My name is Luka Musin and this is my intention to finaly share some knowledge. I working in centrum holdings company, it is one of the largest company in Czech republic with over 5 000 000 unique web users per month. I work there as a PHP developer.

Short about me

After I merried my beautiful wife Martina, we decide to work and live Czech republic for a while. That was quite problem for me because i didn't know speak czech language and i didn't know what to do for living there. Then i went to england for 6 month, I bought there Larry Ullman book: "PHP 6 and MySQL 5" , learn it and after 1 year i was ready to start as a junior software developer in small czech company "GREEP".

I will write here about various programming problems, which i meet every day doing my job and hobby , after all to be good programmer you have to love it... so let's start:

Ternary operator in php

Ternary operator is nice way to write if/else statements:

        $value = (true) ? 'true' : 'false';
        
        #It is possible to add more condition but they should be in parentheses:
        $page = (isset($_GET['advform'])) ? 'advanced-search' :  ( $q  ? 'results' : 'homepage'); 
        #As from php 5.3 < ternary operator has shorter sintax for assigning variable: 

        $page = $_GET['page'] ?: false; 
    

Optimalization

Ternary operator is quick almost as a classic if / else statement in condition that input variable dont hold a large amount of data.

	if($_GET['page']) {
            $page = $_GET['page'] ;
	} else {
            $page = false;
	}