PHP: Ternary Operator, Short 'if' Statement, One Line 'if' Statement

The ternary operator is called so because it takes three operands; a condition, a result for true, and a result for false.

The ternary operator is a shorthand way of writing if statements.

Here's an example:

//Assign a string value to $x
$x = ($myvalue == 10) ? "the value is 10": "the value is not 10";

Breaking it down into its three parts you get this:
Condition: ($myvalue == 10)
Result for true: $x = "the value is 10"
Result for false: $x = "the value is not 10"

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PHP here document (also called a here-document, a heredoc, a hereis, here-string or here-script)

Using heredoc in PHP

<?php
echo <<<EOT

    <h1>This will display as an h1</h1>
    <p>I can use "double quotes"</p>
    <h1>and 'single quotes',
    <p>plus $variables too, which will
    be properly converted to their values,
    you can even type EOT.</p>

    <p>Make sure your opening EOT has no spaces after it,
    and the closing EOT has no spaces infront of it!</p>


 EOT;
 ?>

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