Question

I have an unexpected ; error on this line:

$action = ($sessionMinus == $_SESSION[‘initial_count’]) ? ‘create_session2.php’;

But if I remove the ; then it states unexpected { in the line below, how can this be sorted out?

below full code:

if ($sessionMinus == $_SESSION['initial_count']){

    $action = ($sessionMinus == $_SESSION['initial_count']) ? 'create_session2.php';

}else if($sessionMinus != $_SESSION['initial_count']){

    $action = ($sessionMinus != $_SESSION['initial_count']) ? $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];

}

Answer 1

To use the ternary operator, you need to have values for when the condition is both TRUE and FALSE:

$action = ($sessionMinus != $_SESSION['initial_count']) ? $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] : "false";

I am not sure why you are doing the checks twice, the following should suffice:

<?php 
if ($sessionMinus == $_SESSION['initial_count']){ 

    $action = 'create_session2.php'; 

}else($sessionMinus != $_SESSION['initial_count']){ 

    $action = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; 

}