PHP三元运算符的多个语句

Question

I'm wondering if I could use the ternary operator for something like this:

var string = "";
if (something) {
  string = "foo"
} else if (somethingElse) {
  string = "bar";
} else if (bla) {
  string = "pool";
} else if (xxxxx) {
  string = "coffee";
} else {
  string = "";
}

As far as I remember, I can do this in Java language:

String string = something?"foo":somethingElse?"bar":bla?"pool":xxxxx?"coffee":"";

But I'm not sure about PHP, I'm not even sure if it's OK to use ternary operator in this case or not.

Answer 1

Eg

 if (something) {
      string = "foo"
    } else if (somethingElse) {
      string = "bar";
    } else if (bla) {
      string = "pool";
    } else if (xxxxx) {
      string = "coffee";
    } else {
      string = "";
}

is equivalent to in PHP

(something) ? 'foo' : ((somethingElse) ? 'bar' : ((bla) ? 'pool' : ((xxxxx) ? 'coffe' : '')));