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Can I use echo inside a ternary expression?

Jun 8th, 1999 07:00
Nathan Wallace, Lars Torben Wilson

No.

This is due the fact that echo isn't a function, it's an expression.
so you can't use it precisely like that. Either of the following will
work, however:

<?php

$foo = 1;

($foo == 1) ? print "blip" : print "blop" ;

echo ( ($foo == 1) ? "blip" : "blop" );

?>