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by Udo 3895 days ago
I'm looking forward to this in PHP7. My current workaround, which exists for the same reason as the coalesce operator (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/isset_ternary) is a custom function:

  $v = @first($var1, $var2, 'some-default');
which will simply return the first parameter that has a non-null, non-empty-string value.