Reference Function inside {}

[unemployment]

my state and country function don't seem to be referenced properly.

 

<span class="dark_grey"><?php echo ($company['country'] == 'United States') ? "{$company['city']}, {state($company['state'])}" : "{$company['city']}, {country($company['country'])}"; ?></span>

 

What is the proper syntax?

[KevinM1]

I don't believe you can use the ternary operator in this way.  Have you tried simply:

 

if($company['country'] == 'United States')
{
   echo "{$company['city']}, " . state($company['state']);
}
else
{
   echo "{$company['city']}, " . country($company['country']);
}

[Pikachu2000]

Although I think you're sacrificing readability for compactness, and creating an absolute nightmare for anyone who has to edit the code in the future (including yourself), you can't use a function call in a quoted string. You need to concatenate it.

 

<span class="dark_grey"><?php echo ($company['country'] == 'United States') ? "{$company['city']}, " . state($company['state']) : "{$company['city']},  " . country($company['country']); ?></span>

[PFMaBiSmAd]

Where there's a will, there's a way (I don't recommend that you actually use this method as you will never be able to read and troubleshoot what your code is doing) -

 

<?php
$state = 'state'; // variable function name
$country = 'country'; // variable function name
?>
<span class="dark_grey"><?php echo ($company['country'] == 'United States') ? "{$company['city']}, {$state($company['state'])}" : "{$company['city']}, {$country($company['country'])}"; ?></span>