Moving complex php if statements into ternary statement syntax is not always recommended, but I think it can look quite neat and easily readable.
Ternary statements compress your code and using nested ternary statements sparingly in certain situations makes a mess of nested if statements far easier to scan when converted to a nested ternary.
e.g: If you have a matrix of 4 results depending on two boolean results you could represent this as a regular php nested if else statement:
$bTest1 = false; $bTest2 = false; if ($bTest1) { if ($bTest2) { echo 'test 1 true, test 2 true'; } else { echo 'test 1 true, test 2 false'; } } else { if ($bTest2) { echo 'test 1 false, test 2 true'; } else { echo 'test 1 false, test 2 false'; } }
Or you could use a nested ternary operator syntax:
echo $bTest1 ?($bTest2?'test 1 true, test 2 true':'test 1 true, test 2 false') :($bTest2?'test 1 false, test 2 true':'test 1 false, test 2 false');
Resources:
Ternary Operator Tips