Question

I can’t understand what is wrong I am doing with this if else shorthand code

$item  = '<li '. ($avatar_size > 50) ? .'style="overflow:hidden">';

I only want to check if condition true than add inline style else nothing.

Edit:
Of course in above statement it will remove > too when condition is false so I tried other statement but none of working. I am sure I must doing stupid mistake but can’t figure it out.

$item  = '<li '. ($avatar_size > 50) ? .'style="overflow:hidden"'.:. '' .'>';

Answer 1

There is no “shorthand if”, ?: is an operator and it always must consist of ? and :. The best you can do with this is:

$item  = '<li' . ($avatar_size > 50 ? ' style="overflow:hidden"' : null) . '>';