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== Noncompliant Code Example

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function get_readable_status($is_running, $has_errors) {
  return $is_running ? "Running" : ($has_errors ? "Failure" : "Succeeded");  // Noncompliant
}
----

== Compliant Solution

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function get_readable_status($is_running, $has_errors) {
  if ($is_running) {
    return "Running";
  }
  return $has_errors ? "Failure. " : "Succeeded ";
}
----

== Exceptions

Exclusively chained shorthand ternary operators ``++?:++`` are excluded from this rule.

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$result = $option1 ?: $option2 ?: 'default';
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