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PHP

Posted by Vijesh Arora
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Vijesh Arora
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 34 Points

How to use ternary operator?

This is my code, first one if statement is working fine but the second when i convert it to ternary, it is not working

<option value="en"<?php if(in_array('en', $languages)) {echo ' selected';} ?>>English</option>
<option value="fr"<?php in_array('fr', $languages) ? ' selected' : '' ?>>French</option>

I don't want to use else statement in ternary. I am running a PHP 7.

1 Answer

Andrew McCormick
Andrew McCormick
17,730 Points
Andrew McCormick
Andrew McCormick
17,730 Points

In your ternary operator you need to echo something out.

<option value="fr"<?php echo in_array('fr', $languages) ? ' selected' : '' ?>>French</option>

As a side note, my go to resource everyti me I forget how to setup ternary statement (which is every time I go to use it, lol) is https://davidwalsh.name/php-shorthand-if-else-ternary-operators