Nested Ternary Operator

Learn about nested ternary operators and how they provide the same abilities as if-else statements with improved readability in the code.

Ternary operators are not new to the PHP language. There is, however, a major difference in how they are interpreted in PHP 8. This change has to do with the traditional left-associative behavior of this operator. To illustrate, let’s have a look at a simple example:

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