Posted by Oli Filth on 02/24/06 03:28

J.O. Aho said the following on 21/02/2006 00:30:
> 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...

Arrgh!! Don't say that!!!


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Oli

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