RE: [edlug] PHP Problem

["Malcolm McLean" <Malcolm.McLean@xxx.xxx.xxx>]

Thanks Robert.

It's actually a simplified form of some code in drupal
(http://drupal.org) that's causing me grief so I can see a bug report
coming on.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-edlug@xxx.xxx.xxx [mailto:owner-edlug@xxx.xxx.xxx]
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> Behalf Of Robert Gorrie
> Sent: 11 March 2004 00:58
> To: edlug@xxx.xxx.xxx
> Subject: Re: [edlug] PHP Problem
> 
> 
> 
> Confirmed.
> 
> This:
> 
>     http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=25356
> 
> seems to imply that in php, the ternary is evaluated right-to-left,
> though I can't say that I understand why.
> 
> Hope that helps (or at least verifies) :-)
> 
> 
> Robert
> rgorrie@xxx.xxx.xxx
> 
> 
> On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 00:21:02 -0000, "Malcolm McLean"
> <Malcolm.McLean@xxx.xxx.xxx> said:
> >
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I'm using apache 2 and PHP 4.3.4  and I'm getting some unexpected
> > behaviour.  The following code:
> >
> > 	$v1 = "val 1";
> > 	$v2 = "val 2";
> > 	$v3 = "val 3";
> >
> > 	$val = $v1 ? $v1 : $v2 ? $v2 : $v3;
> >
> > 	echo $val;
> >
> > yields "val 2",  I would have expected it to yield "val 1", as does
> >
> > 	$val = $v1 ? $v1 : ($v2 ? $v2 : $v3);
> >
> > Can anyone confirm this?
> >
> >
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