On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Marc Guay <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> I just ran this:
>
> if (($a = "foo") || ($b = "bar")){
> echo $a."<br />".$b;
> }
>
> and it only spat out "foo" so I'm guessing things have changed. :)
>
> Marc
>
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>From what I understood about || is once it sees a true the whole statement
is regarded as true so nothing else following matters so PHP ignores
everything in the conditional after it evaluates as true...
and once it sees a false the whole statement is regarded as false so
nothing else following matters again
even the docs say short circuiting is used :)
http://php.net/manual/en/language.operators.logical.php
