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What do the colon and endif after else mean? I'm a newbie, I haven't seen it before, so I googled it and realized that this is an alternative syntax for PHP,
Colon (:) is equivalent to the left curly bracket ({), endif is equivalent to the right curly bracket (});
Give me an example:
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It’s a negative number
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The above statement is equivalent to
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It’s a negative number
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Flow control (including if, while, forforeach, switch) statements have alternative syntax.
Basic form of alternative syntax:
Replace the left curly brace ({) with a colon (:), and replace the right curly brace (}) with endif;, endwhile;, endfor;, endforeach; and endswitch;
while alternative syntax:
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Other alternative syntaxes can be derived by analogy.
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