Shortest way to assign a default value to a variable?
问题 I have this right now to use a cookie value if exists otherwise use a default value: $default_carat_min = "0.25"; if($_COOKIE["diamond-search_caratMin"]) { $default_carat_min = $_COOKIE["diamond-search_caratMin"]; } I am going to have to do this with a lot of variables, and its going to get really cluttered/ugly. So I am trying to come up with a cleaner way of writing this. I tried: $default_carat_min = $_COOKIE["diamond-search_caratMin"] | "0.25"; Which did not work. I can do this: $default