Question

I wanted to do Fizzbuzz in php by using unary if, but the output is not what I expect, and I didn’t understood why, so I have copy-paste the code to javascript, and now the result is as expected. Why?

<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script>
$(function(){
papa ='Javascript Output: ';
for($i=1;$i <= 10; $i++){
papa += ($i %5 === 0 && $i %3 === 0) ? 'FizzBuzz' : ($i % 3 === 0) ? 'Fizz' : ($i % 5 === 0) ? 'Buzz' : $i;
$('#result').text(papa);
}
})
</script>
<?php
echo 'PHP Output: ';
for($i=1;$i <= 10; $i++){
$papa ($i %5 === 0 && $i %3 === 0) ? 'FizzBuzz' : ($i % 3 === 0) ? 'Fizz' : ($i % 5 === 0) ? 'Buzz' : $i;
echo $papa;
}
?>
<div id='result'></div>

Output

PHP Output: 12Buzz4BuzzBuzz78BuzzBuzz
Javascript Output: 12Fizz4BuzzFizz78FizzBuzz

Answer 1

Ternary operator (which you called “unary if”) in javascript uses right associativity and the same operator in php uses left associativity.

• javascript operator precedence
• php operator precedence

Yes, this could be fixed with more parenthesis (as well as any problem relating operator precedence).