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Using the Null Coalescing Operator with Functions in PHP | Easy examples

Friday April 4, 2025

When calling a function that may return null, we can use the Null Coalescing operator (??) to provide a default value.

Using Null Coalescing operator with a function.

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We can even use a function’s return value as the default value.

Example of providing a second function as default.

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In case the left function is nullish, we can have the other one’s returned value as the default.

If the first function returns a nullish value, the second one is used as default.
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