Handling of 'or' condidions in Ruby vs PHP

Question

I'm not sure what to call this, so I'll give an example.

In PHP

1==2 || 2 returns 1 or true

In Ruby

1==2 || 2 returns 2 (The second statement if the first evaluates to false).

Is there any short way to implement similar thing in PHP?

Answer 1

In PHP, the result of boolean expressions is always a boolean. So 1==2 || 2 gives true.

The best thing I can think of is

($var = 1 == 2) || ($var = 2)

Then $var will be 2.

Depending on the answer to Matchu's question, you may want:

(($var = 1) == 1) || ($var = 2)

or

($var = 1 == 1) || ($var = 2)

Answer 2

How about 1 == 2 or 2?

However, the result might not be the same if you print directly, so you need to put the result inside a variable. Take this example:

$result = "a" or 2;
var_dump($result); // prints string(1) "a"

var_dump("a" or 2); // prints bool(true)

Take a look here: http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.operators.logical.php

Answer 3

How about

1==2 ? 1==2 : 2

or in PHP 5.3

1==2 ?: 2