Question

I’m attempting to troubleshoot a problem, and need to understand what this if statement is saying:

if ($confirmation = $payment_modules->confirmation()) { 

All the resources I can find only show if statements with double equal signs, not single. Is this one of the shorthand forms of a php if? What is it doing?

(If it’s actually wrong syntax, changing it to a double equal sign doesn’t resolve the problem. As-is, in some scenarios it does return true. In the scenario I’m troubleshooting, it doesn’t return true until after I refresh the browser.)

Any help is greatly appreciated!!!

Answer 1

It’s a form of shorthand, which is exactly equivalent to this:

$confirmation = $payment_modules->confirmation();
if ($confirmation) {

}