Suppose you wanted to test a condition like so:
if(bla) then
print A
else
print B
end if

Pretty basic stuff. But how many lines is that? Further more, imagine if you had to do this 100 times. I am sure your head is reeling at that thought right now. So is there a better and efficient way? I would say yes. The solution would be the ternary operator. With this operator, code like so:
<?php
if(bla) {
?>
print A
<?php
} else {
?>
print B
<?php
}
?>

could easily be rewritten as:
<?php echo (bla ? "A" : "B"; ?>

Of course, this is an over-simplified piece of code but hopefully, you get the point. For example, I use this all the time to determine what parts of my navigation menus to highlight on a given page, based on the URI.

Now, isn't that much easier?

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