explain the colon in this piece of code

[webguync]

just curious as to the function of the colon is in this piece of PHP code.

 

echo ('access=accept&uid='.$userID): .'&username='.urlencode($username);

 

 

[Mchl]

It makes this piece of code invalid.

 

 

[Cosizzle]

is it within an if statement?

 

ie

 

<?php
$a = (!empty($a)) ? TRUE : FALSE;
?>

[webguync]

it is actually, it may be invalid the way it is now.

 

if($scores->num_rows) {
		echo ('access=deny&record=true&uid='.$userID);
		}else {
		echo ('access=deny&record=none&uid='.$userID.'&lid='.$logID);
		}
	}else {
	echo ('access=accept&uid='.$userID): .'&username='.urlencode($username);
	}

[Mchl]

is it within an if statement?

ie

<?php
$a = (!empty($a)) ? TRUE : FALSE;
?>

 

It's not an if statement. It's a ternary operator. You can't have language constructs as its parameters.

 

webguync : My guess is that someone just left it here, while it should be part of a string to echo.

[nankoweap]

it is actually, it may be invalid the way it is now.

 

if($scores->num_rows) {
  echo ('access=deny&record=true&uid='.$userID);
} else {
  echo ('access=deny&record=none&uid='.$userID.'&lid='.$logID);
} else {
  echo ('access=accept&uid='.$userID): .'&username='.urlencode($username);
}

 

given the code you posted, that colon doesn't matter cuz it's failing before that bit of code is parsed. can't have two else's. and something has to be done with that colon too unless that's some php code i'm not familiar with.

 

jason

[Mchl]

 

given the code you posted, that colon doesn't matter cuz it's failing before that bit of code is parsed. can't have two else's.

 

It seems that second else is for yet another if above the one that was posted.

[nankoweap]

hmmm... i reckon that's possible. uuuuhhhhggg!

[webguync]

your right another if statement that I didn't include in the code post. I will take out the colon since it seems to be an error.