Question

I’m curious is there a way to write a shorthand setter in PHP. My primary quest when writing code is to make it as tight as possible and I think the following is kind of cumbersome:

$value = "Which array do I go in?";
if(true)
    $arr_1[] = $value;
else
    $arr_2[] = $value;

Is there a better way to write that? I tried to use the shorthand if:

(true)?$arr_1[]:$arr_2[] = "Which array do I go in?";

But that doesn’t seem to work. Anyone have any cool tricks for this type of situation?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Another option (e.g. if you can’t/don’t want to use globals).

${$cond?'arr_1':'arr_2'}[] = $value;