I wrote a tiny function many years ago that simplified echoing out variables into a form for me. It took 2 arguments and output the first variable if it was present, and the 2nd if not. I called it postOrNot(), and it was terrible.

I wrote a tiny function many years ago that simplified echoing out variables into a form for me. It took 2 arguments and output the first variable if it was present, and the 2nd if not. I called it postOrNot(), and it was terrible for 2 reasons:

1. The function name was bad (now was that an uppercase O or an N?)
2. It was too limited, sometimes I'd have to nest it

I addressed those issues in the function below. It has a simple, short and memorable function name and takes as many arguments as I needed.

function ifelse(){
	if(func_num_args() < 2) 
		trigger_error("ifelse() requires 2 or more arguements", E_USER_ERROR); 
	else { 
		$args = func_get_args();
		foreach($args as $arg){
			if(isset($arg)) return $arg;
		}
		return false; 
	}
}

It'll return out the first argument that is set or false if none of them.

Enjoy