Conditional or ternary Operator in Different Languages

? is the conditional operator or the ternary operator. This operator consists of three operands and is used to evaluate Boolean expressions. The goal of the operator is to decide; which value should be assigned to the variable.

	Syntax	Example	Explanation
C/Java/Javascript/C#	conditionalExpression ? expression1 : expression2	days= (February == ‘1’) ? 29 : 28;	If February is equal to 1 then days=29 otherwise 28
C/Java/Javascript/C#		isMember ? “$4.00” : “$10.00”;	if is Member, assign the value $4.00 otherwise $10
PHP	If Condition is true ? Then value X : Otherwise value Y	$result = ($a > $b ) ? $a :$b;	If condition is true then assign a to result otheriwse b