I couldn't find this anywhere on google or PHP's site but I'm pretty sure there's an answer to it. How can I turn the following into something that resembles the ternary operator? <?php if($something) { $this = $that; } ?> is this what you're after? $this = ($something ? $that : $this) rich -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php