Short YouTube tutorial (creative-constellation) explaining how to simplify PHP if/else echo patterns by converting them into the ternary operator and using PHP short-echo syntax (<?=). The speaker walks through removing the if statement, replacing blocks with ? and :, eliminating duplicated echo statements by appending once, and finally swapping echo for the short echo shorthand.
When working with code, I see this situation a lot where you have a condition where you check if something is true, then you execute some code, and then if it's false, you execute something else. While there's nothing technically wrong with this code, it can be much more succinct and elegant. First, we can just remove this if statement and go ahead and replace these brackets with a question mark. Next, we can remove the second bracket and simplify it down to a colon, and then we don't need this closing bracket at all, we can just remove it. And we don't want this echo statement appearing twice. So let's go ahead and remove both of them and we will append them onto the front. And then finally, anytime we have this PHP echo statement, we can go ahead and replace it with an equal sign. Anytime you have simple boolean checks, this is definitely the way to go.
