On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 11:04, Tedd Sperling <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi gang:
>
> What's a better/shorter way to write this?
>
> $first_name = $_SESSION['first_name'] ? $_SESSION['first_name'] : null;
> $first_name = isset($_POST['first_name']) ? $_POST['first_name'] :
> $first_name;
> $_SESSION['first_name'] = $first_name;
A simple reusable function and pass-through variable is one method:
<?php
session_start();
$_SESSION['first_name'] = $first_name =
thisorthat(@$_POST['first_name'],null);
function thisorthat($a,$b) {
return isset($a) ? $a : $b;
}
?>
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