Assignment in IF Clause

[ApothiX]

Originally Posted by Skyld

So if you want it to return the value of the variable that you are assigning to, why did you not just say so?

It has practical applications mainly with functions that return false on error. Instead of having to have two separate lines you can do it all in one.

ie:

PHP Code:

// ..
if(!(temp.blah = Foo(this.bar))) {
  echo("ZOMG ERROR");
}
// ..
function Foo(bar) {
  if(bar < 10) return false;
  else return bar % 10;
}