If statement inside variable

Question

Im trying to put the following inside a php variable.

I dont know what im doing wrong here :

$cartlink='<a class="cart-contents" href="'.$shoppingcart.'" title="View your shopping cart">' + if ( $count > 0 ) {<span class="cart-contents-count">"'.$count.'"</span></a>} + '</a>';

Possible duplicate of [PHP, Shorthand, If..Else using Ternary Operators](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29814065/php-shorthand-if-else-using-ternary-operators) — Shira, Mar 09 '17 at 10:14

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 09 '17 at 10:14

Your string concat is a bit off, and PHP uses dots . to concat variables together, not + like JavaScript.

There are a couple of ways you could achieve this, via a ternary operator

$cartlink = '<a class="cart-contents" href="'.$shoppingcart.'" title="View your shopping cart">'.($count > 0 ? '<span class="cart-contents-count">"'.$count.'"</span></a>' : "").'</a>';

Or string concatination via a normal if

$cartlink = '<a class="cart-contents" href="'.$shoppingcart.'" title="View your shopping cart">';
if ($count > 0)
    $cartlink .= '<span class="cart-contents-count">"'.$count.'"</span></a>';
$cartlink .= '</a>';

Alegro · Answer 2 · 2017-03-09T14:39:11.527

You can't use if statement like that. Instead use inline version: (condition ? true_case : false_case)

You can write variables directly into quotes echo "Value: $variable";

$cartlink="<a class='cart-contents' href='$shoppingcart' title='View your shopping cart'>" . ( $count > 0 ? "<span class='cart-contents-count'>$count</span></a>" : "" ) . '</a>';

edit: in php whole ternary operator have to be surrounded by brackets to work properly

If statement inside variable

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