Stacking Multiple Ternary Operators in PHP

Question

This is what I wrote :

 $Myprovince = (
($province == 6) ? \"city-1\" :
($province == 7) ? \"city-2\" :
($province == 8) ? \"city-3\" :
($province == 30) ? \         


        

Answer 1

Don't abuse the ternary operator for that sort of thing. It makes debugging near impossible to follow. Why not do something like

switch($province) {
    case 6: $Myprovince = "city-1"; break;
    case 7: ...
}

or simply some chained if/then/else

if ($province == 6) {
     $Myprovince = "city-1";
} elseif ($province = ...) {
   ...
}