What does question mark in PHP represent other than Ternary Operator?

Question

Is there any other use of the question mark ? in PHP other than being part as the Ternary Operator.

Just to take note: I know about how it works in regex and all that. I am talking about the PHP language itself, not regex or what. I know how it works in opening and closing tags.

I am more concerned about tokenizing a PHP script. Is there any other token involving question mark?

I've already checked the PHP manual by the way.

Answer 1

For one, it is used to mark up the PHP code itself like this <? ?> :)

But seriously, are you driving at some particular use you wanted to understand?

Answer 2

Well yeah in php it is used for:

• <?php / ?> opening tags.
• <? ?> short opening tags.
• <?= $variable ?> equivalent to useful when working with templates.
• ?: ternary operator
• And is used in preg_match() when writing regular expressions. ^\s+(\s+)?$