Posted by J.O. Aho on 09/28/35 11:40

Smiley wrote:
> I taught myself PHP a few years ago and I use it frequently. Recently I
> downloaded a PHP script built by somebody else, and came across this piece
> of code:
>
> $password = isset($HTTP_POST_VARS['password']) ? $HTTP_POST_VARS['password']
> : '';
>
> I have never seen the question mark or colon used in this way before. I
> can't find any reference to it in my PHP book. Please tell me what it
> means.


It's a form of an if-statement and you could translate it to:

if(isset($HTTP_POST_VARS['password'])) {
$password=$HTTP_POST_VARS['password'];
} else {
$password='';
}

The script you are using is a bit old, $HTTP_POST_VARS shouldn't anymore be
used, but $_POST.


//Aho

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