Some PHP syntax I don't know

[scrubbicus]

$thiscolcats = ($col > $longcols) ? $percol_short : $percol_long;

 

What does that ? and : mean? For some reason I think it's a shorthand way of doing and ifelse.

[Maq]

It's called a ternary operator.  It is shorthand for an if/else.

 

Converted to if/else it looks like:

 

if($col > $longcols)
{
   $thiscolcats = $percol_short;
}
else
{
   $thiscolcats = $percol_long;
}