PHP Lazy Boolean Evaluation

Question

I have a conditional statement thus:

if($boolean && expensiveOperation()){ ...}

Does PHP have lazy boolean evaluation, i.e. will it

Answer 1

PHP does have short circuit evaluation. Your example would be the proper use of it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short-circuit_evaluation#Support_in_common_programming_languages

Answer 2

Yes, PHP does short-circuit evaluation.

Answer 3

Yes it does. It's called short-circuit evaluation. See the comments on the documentation page...

As for the order, it performs the checks based on Operator Precedence and then left to right. So:

A || B || C

Will evaluate A first, and then B only if A is false, and C only if both A and B are false...

But

A AND B || C

Will always evaluate B || C, since || has a higher precedence than AND (not true for &&).